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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by maxerickson on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:03PM (#6026905)
Given 300 million people, it's prudent to consider the net impact and not sweat the details too much.

Say a policy makes 200 million people better off in some virtuous manner but creates 10 million free loaders. Is that a horrible policy? Say the value of the virtuous benefit is 10x the cost of the free loading?

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by ihateloggingin on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:11AM (#6037370)
The other poster's concern is obviously punishing the undeserving poor.

However, the point of the article here is to assume that millions will be "free loaders" no matter what we do because their labor is unnecessary.

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by dllthomas on Saturday July 13, 2013 @10:21AM (#6037582)
> [M]illions will be "free loaders" no matter what we do because their labor is unnecessary.

Not if we kill them.

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