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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by JonFish85 on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:11PM (#6026959)
This would never work. You're telling me a grandmother who lives in Manhattan will be forced to leave her family and move to a small apartment in Kansas? That's political suicide to suggest anything like that.
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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by danielweber on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:29PM (#6027081)
How does she afford to live there now?

If you want to live some place forever, buy the property. Buying and renting each have risks. Buying risks that you will lose your initial capital, but you get to live there. Renting risks that you might have to leave the property, but the landlord absorbs the risks of the property value declining.

We can't really have effective policy if someone experiencing some kind of risk vetoes it.

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by ihateloggingin on Saturday July 13, 2013 @06:40AM (#6037229)
It's political suicide to suggest that a grandmother who is currently receiving $0 in basic income should instead receive more? You haven't thought this through.
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