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by SeaSeaRider 2221 days ago
Welfare state and UBI are completely different things.
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negamax 2221 days ago
The whole argument for UBI is that "the last failure didn't do socialism right".
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akvadrako 2221 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 2221 days ago
It's a similar evil that sounds good on paper as the other evil
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