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by eli_gottlieb 4014 days ago
>With time, most governments (not necessarily the US) will realize how much they can save by giving people healthy genes from the start, and it won't be as much of a class divide.

The poverty-as-disease model already shows that governments could save money by treating/preventing poverty rather than providing lifetimes of palliative care[1]. The problem is the moralizing about poverty.

[1] https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-th...