Honestly one of the dumbest idea’s that so many people still think would work. It wouldn’t, plain and simple. For one, you’d have to dismantle the entire welfare state for it to be affordable (which in and of itself would cause issues even with a UBI), and the incentive thing isn’t some "right wing myth," it’s totally valid. There are prerequisites for welfare and limitations that are in place because of incentives, I don’t see those same prerequisites working under UBI at all. The cost would stem beyond just the amount of money that would have to be forked […]
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