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Originally Posted by Azure
This actually blows me away, and further reinforces my belief that any program based around hanging actual money out is going to miserably fail.
Nobody in the government cared about this specific problem when they starting sending cheques out, and nobody will care in the future.
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Drug addicts spending their money on drugs? Couldn't see that coming. The thing that this article skirts over is that the CERB did not cause these people to become addicts. That and they were feeding their habits somehow without the funds from the gov't before the pandemic. The extra money accelerated their usage. Blaming their deaths on CERB is sidestepping the addiction itself in favor of convenience.
It's sad, but whether the idea of UBI is a winner or not, this particular argument feels like a baby with the bathwater scenario.