I'm not convinced such a short and limited test would prove anything about UBI. Personally I oppose it on principle and am glad they cancelled it. I don't believe in giving people something for nothing. And it's not the cost of social programs which will bury this society, it's our massive healthcare system that will do it.
So yeah..nobody wants to discuss the huge elephant in the room. They wanna throw free money at people who don't wanna put in anything but the absolute minimum effort in life. I don't think this results in a positive outcome for our society.
This idea that we're heading towards a society where people won't need to work, or where jobs won't exist, is as old as society itself. There is no free ride. There never was, there never will be. The labor market is ever evolving and ever present.
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Of the long list of stuff Ontario voters have been lied to on various campaign trails, this one ranks pretty god damn low I'd say.
I'm not convinced such a short and limited test would prove anything about UBI. Personally I oppose it on principle and am glad they cancelled it. I don't believe in giving people something for nothing. And it's not the cost of social programs which will bury this society, it's our massive healthcare system that will do it. So yeah..nobody wants to discuss the huge elephant in the room. They wanna throw free money at people who don't wanna put in anything but the absolute minimum effort in life. I don't think this results in a positive outcome for our society.
This idea that we're heading towards a society where people won't need to work, or where jobs won't exist, is as old as society itself. There is no free ride. There never was, there never will be. The labor market is ever evolving and ever present.