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spicymaki 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm not worried about AI job loss

Minorities don’t just get social security. People don’t get social security if they don’t work or don’t have a spouse who worked. They pay in to the system via payroll taxes. With UBI who is going to pay into that? UBI just seems like a pipe dream.

int_19h 6 months ago [–]

With UBI, everyone is going to pay into that via taxes. It's not any different from other forms of welfare.

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