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Zeus posted...

I'm sick of hearing people pretend that the temporary bailout/stimulus is the same thing as UBI. It's not. NPR was peddling this bullshit as well just yesterday and actually had Andrew Yang on. Doing something under the very extraordinary circumstance of an international emergency is very different from having done in the day-to-day.

Not to mention that Yang's UBI scheme couldn't possibly be funded under the current environment. The way that this is being funded is, again, by necessity a way that wouldn't be feasible in the long-term. And it's very likely that the stimulus will exclude at least some people unlike UBI which, in theory, covers everybody.

Estimates say this disruption could last as long as a year and a half. They're going to have to figure out something before this country starts looking like 1789 France. Our modern society is 9 meals away from savagery at any given time. Look at what started happening in NYC after Sandy. Now extrapolate that to Sandy having happened everywhere there's pavement and indoor plumbing.

This is just the harsh reality of things Zeus.

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