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>>759687
You guys are missing half the point by arguing for means testing.

Means tested welfare. Lets people fall through the cracks and COSTS MONEY.

A huge part of the savings from making it a UNIVERSAL basic income is its egalitarian. The government is great at sending checks and shit at handling means tested welfare.

You also save money by making healthcare universal. Basically just getting the governments red tape out of the way saves everyone money and trouble everytime.

We already have homeless alcoholics right now. Free money or not theyll act the same. How many picassos and such are withering aeay washing dishes?

Let me hit this note again because i think its key. People are , right now, with section 8 housing and foodstamps. Dying of starvation and overdosing on heroine. People are falling through the cracks and exercising free will and they will do this either way. People sober up when they want to. You are muddying the discussion by focusing on "what would become" of a minority of the very worst that society already ignores.