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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by MichaelBurge on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:36PM (#27584847)
> If it doesn't work, we can always just go back to letting people starve.

Elderly people already get a UBI in the form of Social Security, and that's politically impossible to cut regardless of whether it's a good or bad idea.

Once you turn it on and people get used to it, you can never turn it off in a democracy.

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