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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by wonderwonder on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:34PM (#23262829)
Not really, the central premise of UBI is that its recurring allowing you to plan for and adapt to the income. This was just a bandaid for a financial disaster.

What is interesting about the payouts is that we magically made the money for them while also magically making the money for a ton of other stuff. Obviously the scale of one time vs recurring is vastly different but I feel like this does go a ways towards proving its possible.

Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by eplanit on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:00PM (#23267603)
True that it was a band-aid, but the Magic was a massive increase in the national debt[1]. Be careful wishing for any more.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/05/08/national-d...