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Re:Basic income by bfung on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @12:49AM (#757308)
I agree. What's to prevent me from cheating the system by having a ton of kids? They'll be provided for by this program. Also, I elect that my salary be $1 and receive bonuses instead... yes, there are arguments against that, but at least right now, I'd have to spend effort to be rich first before taking the $1 salary + bonus.

I just finished reading through the Self-Enforcing Protocols post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755131), and this scheme strikes me as something being easy to abuse.

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Re:Basic income by tokenadult on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @12:50AM (#757314)
What's to prevent me from cheating the system by having a ton of kids?

Um, maybe having the kids around?

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Re:Basic income by wlievens on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @08:18AM (#757846)
He does have a point. In places with good child benefits, some people just keep getting more kids, and not raising them properly.
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Re:Basic income by tokenadult on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @09:53AM (#758059)
Which places are those? What kind of family sizes are we talking about?
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