Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time

Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by whitewingjek on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:07PM (#39401546)

UBI may sound like a worthwhile endeavor to a great many people, but I can't help but think of what we give up with such a system.

If I politicaly dissent from the majority (whomsoever that is or whatever they believe) what stops them—the government as often described—from stopping UBI from those that are deemed "unfit."

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Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by caekislove on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:42PM (#39403354)

I'm old enough to remember influential TV people advocating for the revocation of the "rights" of certain people to healthcare, employment or even being allowed to leave their own homes if they refused to be injected with the special science juice. That was just a hypothetical scenario! The sad reality in America is that anything real like UBI would be politically weaponized from practically day one.

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Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by jauntywundrkind on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:23PM (#39401749)

By definition they're not doing UBI then. That doesn't alleviate your concern that that's how things might go, but your concern is that UBI might not be UBI.

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Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by whitewingjek on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:11PM (#39403632)

That would be a correct assessment, but that would not stop people from calling it that if that does happen.

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