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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by arczyx on Thursday March 05, 2020 @11:42PM (#22501049)
Governments are already printing money for the rich though, it's called 'Quantitative Easing'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by lliamander on Friday March 06, 2020 @02:01AM (#22501531)
I was waiting for this reply. The obvious answer to that being that it doesn't make printing money for a UBI any better of an idea. It's completely irrelevant.

Let's not try and justify bad ideas by pointing out that people currently do bad things.

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