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nowaypablo  ·  3571 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $11,000 for Every Household: Could Guaranteed Income Work for America?

    Your goal may be to discourage lazy freeloaders, but it will be hard to distinguish them from people who are unemployed for reasons we would not hold against them.

you're absolutely right. It seems like in this closed system if you do actually try to make changes you'll offset an entire structure that just offers a dozen new problems. I suppose, strong government assesses these negative outcomes and eats a few if it's at least a better situation than before. I mean,

    ...The employees now receive $32,000 while doing the same work, but the employer has benefitted much more. If this case is realistic, then the program could transfer wealth from less wealthy taxpayers to wealthier employers.

That's a problem. But, that's a problem that becomes reality once we've started an operation that will offer support to all of the American households that fight under the poverty line. Maybe it's worth it for the time being.

But of course that's not very sensible thinking in the long run and I get what you're saying. Hmph, I thought I solved world hunger there for a moment >:(