[miketery]

I’m surprised by the down votes. Possibly you could have made your point better, there are pros and cons.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

[anonzzzies]

> ... to take from you everything you have.”

Nothing to do with UBI; the gov of the country you live in can do that period. Really no clue what it has to do with UBI.

[toomuchtodo]

I trust a functioning government over free market human participants. People always overweight their own ability to succeed, when the stats tell a different story.

How are the governments and economies in the happiest countries structured, for example.

[dang]

(I think it was probably downvoted because it was too far over the line into ideological battle and other things that the site guidelines ask commenters to avoid here.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[surgical_fire]

This is still a shit argument.

Most people have nothing in the current system.

[fwip]

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