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SeaSeaRider
2219 days ago
No European country has implemented any form of UBI, nor do they intend to.
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negamax
2219 days ago
Large welfare states are very basic income like. Have you checked the numbers on how many people get some form of government support in France? Many European countries' have their 30%+ budget for welfare
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SeaSeaRider
2219 days ago
Welfare state and UBI are completely different things.
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negamax
2219 days ago
The whole argument for UBI is that "the last failure didn't do socialism right".
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akvadrako
2219 days ago
UBI is not socialism. Compared to jobs programs, welfare and almost anything else the government does, it is less centrally managed.
That's why many of the 20th century supporters were libertarians.
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negamax
2219 days ago
It's a similar evil that sounds good on paper as the other evil
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