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UBI works too (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With no other income at all?

The point of UBI is that you could just live off that if you were frugal.

Everybody gets it of course, but you'd lose 10% of your current wages too. Everyone under $80k would be better off, everyone over that would be worse off.

The thing with UBI is that you'd lose all other state benefits too. Pretty much anything means tested would go and be replaced with one payment that everyone gets.