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Re:What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @12:19PM (#22217990)
> "There's nothing preventing people from moving out of those areas and getting jobs elsewhere"

How about family ties? How about ties to their friends and community? These are human beings you are talking about, not robots. At a time when societal problems relating to atomization are increasingly evident (e.g. https://psmag.com/social-justice/americans-are-staying-as-fa...), we hardly need to encourage more of it.

> "UBI should only enable people to subsist on government income if they are willing to live in cheap areas with not-so-comfortable living conditions."

Oooh, yes. We could also give these cheap areas with not-so-comfortable living conditions some snazzy label like, say, "ghetto", "favela" or "slum". /s

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Re:What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? by dang on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:15PM (#22219132)
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It's destructive of the curious conversation we're trying to have here.

All your substantive points can be expressed in the curious style instead. Just be thoughtful, respectful, and open rather than snarky, indignant, and confrontational.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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