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dingodog

@hunkyscotsman

And thus, given the success on small scales, the wise choice of action would be to try some well designed experiments on larger scales, no?

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NosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ replied to dingodog

@dingodog19 @hunkyscotsman he's just moving the goalposts.

He's a brainless manlet hiding behind a faux-high ground of "centrism." (if not outright some poor third-world troll in a cubicle with no real opinion of their own)

DELETED replied to dingodog

@dingodog19

The risks and downsides are only going to show in a universally applied system once universally applied. That's a terrible experiment to conduct on a country and one that cannot be researched at small scale to guarantee any outcome. Look at how "scientific" the fed is, its calculated guesswork. That's what happens when you move from micro to macro.

dingodog replied to DELETED

@hunkyscotsman

It's a terrible experiment, if the status quo is fine for everyone. But that's certainly not the case in our current system.

Many times drug trials have been stopped early because it's unethical to leave people in the control group.

When study after study shows that UBI helps people, and that the ill effects expected by some do not occur, it becomes unethical to just leave the status quo in place because "something bad might happen."

By this reasoning, no new national policy could ever be rolled out. Every new technology should be restricted.

If poor results for UBI mean we shouldn't do it, and good results for UBI mean we shouldn't do it, aren't we presupposing the outcome?

@hunkyscotsman

It's a terrible experiment, if the status quo is fine for everyone. But that's certainly not the case in our current system.

Many times drug trials have been stopped early because it's unethical to leave people in the control group.

When study after study shows that UBI helps people, and that the ill effects expected by some do not occur, it becomes unethical to just leave the status quo in place because "something bad might happen."

DELETED replied to dingodog

@dingodog19

Let me sleep on that and get back to you.

In the meantime since you brought up an external example.

Would you put UBI or universal healthcare first in a list of priorities?

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