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Re:Universal basic income seems to improve employment and we... by AdrianB1 on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:33AM (#24258922)
> Take any country with wide social safety nets. You don't really need to work in them to live.

Please give an example of such a country on Earth, it does not exist. Mythical countries don't qualify.

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Re:Universal basic income seems to improve employment and we... by _Understated_ on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:41AM (#24258974)
I'd have to say that the UK is one of those mythical countries.

Look at any of the newspapers and there will be plenty of stories of people who learned to game the system and get plenty of welfare money.

Source - I know one of them and I live in the UK.

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Re:Universal basic income seems to improve employment and we... by AdrianB1 on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:58AM (#24259080)
I heard about gaming the system as a teenage mother, but that cannot be done by everyone.
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