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by Kalium 3696 days ago
Often the policies ignore basic differences in expressed values. UBI is cast as a change to improve their lives. The problem is that we're talking about populations whose political memories can be neatly summarized as "Someone promised to improve my life with a policy, then things got worse".

At the core of it, they don't trust you. Nothing you can say matters after that.