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Re:Four Reasons a Guaranteed Income Won't Work by philwelch on Friday December 06, 2013 @10:24PM (#6865331)
> Ideally, it would be cost neutral or a net win to transition off of the quagmire of various welfare systems

Ideals aren't convincing. Numbers are.

Re:Four Reasons a Guaranteed Income Won't Work by pfranz on Friday December 06, 2013 @10:43PM (#6865382)
I completely agree. There are two aspects here; what do we want out of a society and what we can do with the resources we have (the numbers). We're clearly moving towards the resources, which is why I hedged so much on the topic of cost (and put it last instead of first). I'm just interested in moving the conversation in that direction. I like the idea, but I'm not entirely sold on it--it would be /very/ disruptive.