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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Basic income program for Canada
« on: January 25, 2020, 10:38:29 pm »
IMO billionaires are free-riding. How do we prevent that? Lol

So this is also about furthering wealth redistribution from rich to poor?

You didn't answer the question about free-riding.

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Basic income gets rid of the judgements and control and gives autonomy to individuals to control their own lives. It's much more likely that more people will succeed with autonomy than with debilitating bureaucracy and nanny-state control that rob people of dignity, motivation, energy and creativity.
That's pretty basic psychology: You don't create autonomous people by robbing them of autonomy and pummeling them with bureaucratic failure. That creates learned helplessness and failure. You create autonomous people by giving them autonomy and sufficient resources to succeed.

So you give people more autonomy by making people more reliant on government for income?  The nanny state brings out its big bottle of milk and makes everyone, not just the needy, have a suckle?

The point of social programs should be to help people help themselves when they're most vulnerable so hopefully they can become autonomous.  People who can't help themselves (ie: disabled) are the only ones who should be on the government dime longterm.

Maybe our social programs should be reformed to make them easier to access and use, instead of putting our hands up and just giving everyone cash.
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