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by onlycoffee 1321 days ago
What happens if 100% of people decide they don't want to be the chump paying for UBI and we all go on UBI? With no one left making money, there's no way for the country to make pay UBI payments.

Using UBI as an argument to eliminate theft crime is like paying terrorists, it doesn't work in the long run; you only end up funding a future, more effective terrorist or criminal who will demand more and more.
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bnjms 1321 days ago
I assume it would be much like it currently is where we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage because that’s how they prefer to exist while the rest of us work and the payment for our extra work to them is that we don’t have to deal with them in day to day society. This sounds a lot like SSI for some of the people on it. Unfortunately I don’t think people actually work like that and instead you get shiftless youth.
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buck4roo 1321 days ago
> we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage >> because that's how they prefer to exist << while the rest of us work...

Citation required.

Show evidence a population exists, anything close to as large as you're intimating ("lower class" as you called it), that actually wants a "low barely livable wage"?

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