[rossenberg79]

> I believe people know and should have control of how they spend a basic income.

Why? If it’s not being spent on those things anyway isn’t the person just making a financial mistake?

[SubiculumCode]

Because I believe in a free people. I believe in market solutions. I believe people should be allowed to take risks. I believe people often know what they need more than someone who lives far away.

[mantas]

They're not free people if they live on UBI handouts.

[luckylion]

And when they make a mistake, do we just give them new money because they've put all the old money into the lottery?

[Jedi72]

Believe away Dorothy, reality is a small % of the population, i.e. millions of people, are pretty much screw-ups. Welfare is the blanket solution for how we deal with it. Giving everyone BI and taking away peoples welfare is going to fail in all these cases, so will fail generally. Even here in Australia where we have good welfare we still have government housing, soup kitchens and tonmes of other real-assistance programs.