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by scotty79 2000 days ago
It's just fixed amount of money that may or may not cover for your specific needs and preferences.

Variability in those needs are taken care of outside of UBI. You can still have a separate funds for medical equipment and you can still have prices of pads subsidized by goverment to promote hygiene.
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mantas 2000 days ago
The original idea of UBI was to drop all welfare apparatus, add saved moneys to welfare budget and then give it away equally.

But now it's turning into a beast that doesn't remove much of existing complexity and adds additional welfare. Money source for a meaningful payout be damned.

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scotty79 2000 days ago
You can drop a lot of means tested support for the poor. But I don't think it was to abolish all welfare for special needs groups.
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mantas 2000 days ago
The very initial idea in libertarian circles was to abolish literally all welfare.

The problem is once you start looking into leaving safety nets, bureaucracy is no longer reduced and budget savings no longer happen. Then you need to find a ton fo extra €€€€ to fund UBI. Suddenly „yay no nanny state“ becomes „yay more taxes“...

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