[ianlevesque]

I fully support more generous unemployment benefits but there are problems with just handing out money too. https://www.businessinsider.com/nigerian-crime-ring-steals-m...

[monadic2]

Well whatever we’re doing with half a million homeless is clearly not working.

[pstuart]

The problem is that things are working great for those in charge.

With the coming wave of evictions that number is likely to soar. Things are going to get a lot worse before there's any opportunity to fix things.

[cryptoz]

Your link doesn't support your claim. The article indicates a crime syndicate was responsible, a group who had already stolen lots of money. The weakness here is not in a UBI-type system at all; money was being stolen regardless of the source.

> The fraudsters took advantage of states that were already struggling to process a flood of jobless claims amid the COVID-19 pandemic and related government shutdowns.

To me, this reads as a negative mark against the US federal government for denying the existence of the threat. Not a result of the aide programs themselves.

[ianlevesque]

Yeah UBI could’ve fixed this.