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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by callmeal on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:43AM (#27578242)
>But if it is enough to survive on, then too many people who are capable of working will choose to instead just survive on it indefinitely.

And why is that a problem? I see it as a net benefit. The only people working will be those that want to work, and in my opinion it will reduce all the posturing and politics that go on in a workplace because people don't want to be there.

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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by chii on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:32AM (#27578974)
> The only people working will be those that want to work

and there wouldn't be enough of them to support the remaining.

The "funding" of UBI have to come from a technological advance, such as effectively free energy, which powers automation in such a way that owners of these resources would not miss a small tax to pay for the bare minimum UBI.

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