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Old 07-29-2016, 03:35 PM   #9044
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Originally Posted by GGG View Post
One example would be a Guranteed income. Instead of Medicare, social security, public education, mental health programs, anti poverty programs, school breakfast programs and every other program that is a social welfare program you just give people an minimum income which provides a certain standard of living and its up to them to decide how to do it.
Yeah, the problem with that is that people are generally not very smart or are more prone to seek out short term gains over better longterm gains. The latter has been studied numerous times and it's not a personality flaw, it's something that's hardwired into most people.
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