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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by bo1024 on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:43AM (#22382985)
This is one reason behind universal basic income as a welfare program. There are no hoops, no cutoffs, no distortion of incentives.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by lonelappde on Saturday February 22, 2020 @09:35AM (#22391224)
Yes there are. Money if fungible, so UBI can become a tent subsidy for landlords by driving rents up, instead of paying for food and medicine while leaving rents at current equilibrium
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