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Re:Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever by frockington1 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:25AM (#27036806)
How do you implement UBI without any centralized government and in some cases a functioning currency?
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Re:Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever by gbear605 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:06AM (#27037139)
Charities like GiveDirectly do it using various mobile baking programs along with physically driving shipments of cash to remote areas that don’t have phone access. It’s a complicated problem that involves a lot of human time but it’s also a mostly solved problem.
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Re:Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever by tom_mellior on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:09AM (#27037174)
https://www.givedirectly.org/ gives a basic income to poor people. It's not universal.
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