• MHLoppy2@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      In this experiment, external funding is paying for the handouts.

      In a self-contained system, the same system/community providing the handouts would be generating the revenue for them (e.g., via taxation). Think of existing social welfare where “the system” generates the revenue that pays for the welfare programs.

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        11 months ago

        That’s irrelevant to the question here. Here the question is how would people live their lives depending on the variation of the UBI. They still pay taxes. It’s no different than government money.

        The question you are asking is where the money will come from. Or how will the government finance this. It’s not a difficult question to solve, except for liberals who hate taxes more than anything else on earth.

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          11 months ago

          The question of where to get the money is not so simple, really. Especially so if the economy is already fubar

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            11 months ago

            You know money is just made up, right? The question of where to get the money is the simplest part of the whole proposition.