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Anon falls through the cracks (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Love that you're getting down voted but we had something approaching universal basic income in my country trough wellfare plans that were not exclusive with each other and had super lax requirements (since corrupt officials would take a cut of them) and it resulted in a very marked increase in poverty and a very marked cultural decline in work ethic on the lower classes

Why work or study when you can just stay at home and get paid enough to survive if you vote for the "right" candidate. People love to dream about theorized ideals but reality is often more complicated

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

love random comments dismissing potentially good policy because "in my country" which you didnt name, it doesn't work

what kind of fucking scientist says "huh that attempt didn't work i guess it never will"?

You're not even going to tell us what country it is so we can see? probably not, because it is probably a shitty comparison.

and for the record, parent comment was downvoted because it's fucking stupid. there's no UBI in this post. it's as if i take a day off and go to the park and say "Hmpf this is why UBI doesnt work!" like what the fuck are you talking about, UBI is not just when lazy day. the only thing that could make this post dumber would be calling me triggered for pointing out how dumb it is

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

what kind of fucking scientist says “huh that attempt didn’t work i guess it never will”?

We also do know how this supposed UBI was implemeted and by which metric it did not work.