Basic Income Means Basic Freedom

Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by thenmar on Sunday December 15, 2013 @09:57PM (#6912492)

Really? Do you really think everyone on welfare, or even a majority, are just lazy poor people living off the money earned by the glorious, noble, hard-working, libertarian class? Is it really that simple?

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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by jswinghammer on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:05PM (#6912531)

Of course not. They're just people responding to incentives to make the best choices they can. I don't judge anyone on welfare or not.

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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by thenmar on Monday December 16, 2013 @11:52AM (#6915952)

I think this "poor people are dumb animals and if we stopped giving the money they'd go get jobs" attitude is super fucked up.

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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by baddox on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:29PM (#6912629)

Why did you throw the word "libertarian" in there? It makes absolutely no sense in that context.

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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by eropple on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:41PM (#6912940)

It's not an unreasonable adjective to use; the makers/takers dichotomy is a mainstay of popular libertarianism in America.

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