tintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agoWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1408arrow-down14
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minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoIDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·10 months agoSocial security isn’t UBI.
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoSorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·edit-210 months agoSorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?
IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
Social security isn’t UBI.
Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
Sorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?