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I’m surprised by the down votes. Possibly you could have made your point better, there are pros and cons.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”



> ... to take from you everything you have.”

Nothing to do with UBI; the gov of the country you live in can do that period. Really no clue what it has to do with UBI.


I trust a functioning government over free market human participants. People always overweight their own ability to succeed, when the stats tell a different story.

How are the governments and economies in the happiest countries structured, for example.


(I think it was probably downvoted because it was too far over the line into ideological battle and other things that the site guidelines ask commenters to avoid here.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


This is still a shit argument.

Most people have nothing in the current system.


It's downvoted because it has no basis in reality.




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