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Re:What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? by brockmuellers on Sunday February 02, 2020 @01:44PM (#22218532)
One could instead think of social programs, such as UBI, as insurance. People gladly pay >1% of income for insurance. I believe that nearly everyone has the potential to end up in the financial dumps (no one is above drug addiction, serious health problems, mental disorders, lawsuits etc). If a worker ends up there, they'll be glad to have the "insurance coverage" of UBI.
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Re:What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? by lixtra on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:00PM (#22218623)
If that is so, why don’t you form an ubi society, whose members pay an ubi for everyone that wants to join (and net pay). According to you it won’t be difficult to find people that are glad to join.

To the downvoters of my initial comment: I don’t want people to die on the street. But I doubt ubi is an adequate cure either.

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Re:What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? by CryptoBanker on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:15AM (#22224262)
When the people vote for UBI one day you'll have your society...
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Re:What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? by nybble41 on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:23PM (#22228560)
...whether you want it or not. Which misses the entire point of it being a society with voluntary membership.
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