One way to fight a coronavirus recession: $1k for every American

Re:One way to fight a coronavirus recession: $1k for every A... by jawns on Monday March 16, 2020 @12:53PM (#22594436)

This is not my opinion, but I think there are many people out there who would be happy for those four people to live together off UBI and play video games and smoke pot all day and literally do nothing to contribute to society.

Why? Because it contains them. Otherwise, where would they be? If they have little interest in holding down a job, they're probably out committing crimes, or sitting in jail for those crimes. So the thinking goes that UBI is a way to contain them without having to jail them.

I don't think this is the right way to think about this problem, but I think it's tempting to think this way.

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Re:One way to fight a coronavirus recession: $1k for every A... by ThrowawayR2 on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:16PM (#22594764)

Any form of entertainment is going to feel empty eventually and then you're right back at square one.

A universal jobs program makes more sense as a form of containment; it needn't even be particularly onerous.

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