UBI, or universal basic income, is a form of direct cash assistance to help the most vulnerable get back on their feet. A new study in Denver suggests it works.
  • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    182·
    1 year ago

    I guess you’re against COVID treatments too because coming in contact with other human beings is also a choice. Lung Cancer cure? No thanks, they chose to smoke those cigarettes so I would like them to suffer.

    • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      1 year ago

      Lung Cancer cure? No thanks, they chose to smoke those cigarettes so I would like them to suffer.

      My mom died of Lung Cancer, didn’t smoke a single cigarette her whole life. So fuck you.

    • Gigan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      250·
      1 year ago

      I don’t want them to suffer, but I’m not paying for their treatment.

      • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        281·
        1 year ago

        I don’t want them to suffer,

        but I’m not paying for their treatment.

        I’m not trying to be spicy, but you must see how these two statements are contradictory.

      • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        If you have insurance, private or public, you’re paying for them either way. That’s how insurance works.

      • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Nobody wants to pay taxes bud, but if you don’t, the country will fall apart around you because of precisely that.