• @wreckedcarzz
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    284 months ago

    As someone well below the poverty level (thanks, social “security”), fucking DUH. Someone handed me 1k a month it would literally double my income and let me pay off debt, which would improve my situation substantially. Nobody in a shit situation barely making things work month after month is like “aw yeah, time for new clothes and a makeover for my #insta”. Anyone could have predicted that outcome.

    • Prox
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      154 months ago

      Yes, “duh,” but this type of experimentation is important to PROVE the approach is sound. Tons of detractors claim/purport that UBI will result in people spending their “free” (not actually free) money on frivolous bullshit, and know we have data to the contrary.

    • @ApatheticCactus
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      34 months ago

      Yes, but then ONE person is going to blow it on something stupid, post it online, and be the example for the justification for the entire program to be shut down.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Anyone with a functioning brain could have predicted that outcome, but a lot of people have other predictions nonetheless.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      Nobody in a shit situation barely making things work month after month is like “aw yeah, time for new clothes and a makeover for my #insta”

      Well, no, not nobody. There are some idiots out there.