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This is why UBI isn't a good solution to the massive glut of problems we're facing.

Which is why universal basic services[1] provide a much better solution, because they make it the government's problem to handle the logistics of creating or procuring the resources people will need.

But after decades of red scare, I don't have much faith the U.S. government will move in this direction, and even the working class may protest it due to how conditioned they are to reject anything they might associate with communism.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services



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