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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
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.
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Well sure it is a minor issue now, but in this supposed dystopian future we are heading towards, drug use is headed for an increase as well.
People that qualify for UBI (if we do it that way) are the same people who are more likely to have abuse issues.
Simply handing out money without conditions or programs to support these kinds of problems is a terrible idea.
Just reading through this thread and the different ideas, to me UBI will come down to something as basic as giving $10 to a homeless guy on the street thinking he might go buy himself a meal, but in reality he goes to get more drugs. To think otherwise is a bit delusional.