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Originally Posted by kerowo
A UBI won't make someone not poor. A UBI would remove them from poverty allowing them to focus on something more productive than whether they should buy food or medicine today.
If you have an higher, guaranteed by the state, income thatn the median bulgarian, indonesian and so on and you still get defined poor then the person using that word is a liar.
If the median bulgarian can not only survive but live a decent life, then an american can do the same with 10-12k$ per year. If he doesn't manage to that's entirely his/her fault. Median bulgarian personal income at PPP is less than 6k per year.
Remember that this doesn't include healthcare. So it would be basic income + healthcare, like the proposals going on in europe, canada and so on.
But it's never enough for you radical leftists. Never. Enough.
Having 100% of the resident population permanently out of poverty is NOT ENOUGH. Because maybe some of them have to move.
You know what? people like you are the reason i don't fight as much as i could in favor of basic income or other welfare of that kind. Because as long as people like you exist no concession can be made to your side. It's too dangerous to ever allow you any possible political victory. You have to disappear completly before decent people can put togheter decent solutions to real problems.
Until them i think you deserve trump and people like him. Enjoy that, knowing fully well they exist only because you generated them, disallowing pratictal and useful centrism in your country.