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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by lostcolony on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:19PM (#26029930)
What do you do -now- about the ambitious people who live beyond their salaried means and end up being unable to pay the rent?
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by throwawayboise on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:21PM (#26029947)
So what problem does UBI solve, then?
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by lostcolony on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:29PM (#26030023)
It guarantees a certain level of means. Obviously. It's not intending to address people who live outside their means; there are other controls for that. It's to ensure that a person's means is sufficient to cover their basic needs.

A person who is responsible with $10 a month may not be a credit risk, but clearly can't cover their needs; a person spending $10k a month when their job pays them only $8k is clearly a credit risk, living outside their means, despite earning enough to cover far more than their basic needs. You're strawmanning.

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