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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by xyzzyz on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:42PM (#23264922)
> It would genuinely be tough problem to educate people to not spend their basic income, or to design a system where it's clawed back through paycheques.

We can use the system that we already have, that is, income tax. It has worked fine for quite a while.

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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by Tiktaalik on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:27PM (#23265609)
Yeah note the line after that. This is a new wrinkle to the norm.

Not saying these issues can't be addressed, just pushing back against the notion that UBI is simple to implement.

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