JackGreenEarth to [email protected]English • 11 months agoWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.message-square200fedilinkarrow-up1352file-text
arrow-up1321message-squareWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.JackGreenEarth to [email protected]English • 11 months agomessage-square200fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoSee my other reply and if you want to argue please reply there, but TL;DR, means testing is basic income and arguing about the qualifications of a basic income doesn’t help when it comes down to whether or not we should implement one.
See my other reply and if you want to argue please reply there, but TL;DR, means testing is basic income and arguing about the qualifications of a basic income doesn’t help when it comes down to whether or not we should implement one.
Done and done.