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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by dvtrn on Thursday March 05, 2020 @11:12AM (#22494797)
Was this just general derision in the form of "people on twitter" or had an economist somewhere made a cogent economic rebuttal? It's the latter I was interested and hoping someone could point me in the direction of. Not particularly interested in hearing what twitter person thinks about UBI-I'm rather ignorant to certain economic arguments about UBI myself, and am trying to address this, if that makes sense.
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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by thedance on Thursday March 05, 2020 @11:31AM (#22495018)
I doubt any serious economist could corral up enough spare tike to waste on a rebuttal of this idea. Not every idea rises to the level of serious discourse. The Yang UBI amount was much smaller than the amount paid by social welfare programs to the people who receive them. That's just arithmetic.
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