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Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better by SeaSeaRider on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:35AM (#23201937)
Welfare state and UBI are completely different things.
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Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better by negamax on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:37AM (#23201951)
The whole argument for UBI is that "the last failure didn't do socialism right".
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Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better by akvadrako on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:49AM (#23202349)
UBI is not socialism. Compared to jobs programs, welfare and almost anything else the government does, it is less centrally managed.

That's why many of the 20th century supporters were libertarians.

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Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better by negamax on Saturday May 16, 2020 @07:00AM (#23202408)
It's a similar evil that sounds good on paper as the other evil
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