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billy99k 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: My second year without a job

"That’s honestly how life is meant to be lived but it’s too bad we’re not at UBI levels in society yet"

This sounds great. My question is why should I have to work and pay for you to do what you want all day?

dyauspitr 6 months ago [–]

With UBI you would receive it too. I presume the person that pays the cost is large industrialists with automated factories with billions in profits.

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