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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This program seems like an old idea. I am not sure what the point is. [/quote]

The point is helping people improve their lives.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-28/for-more-than-20-guaranteed-income-projects-the-data-is-in[/quote]

It’s not scalable to everyone who would be eligible, and I’m not sure how fair it is to help some and not others. If we “help” everyone, then nobody is helped.[/quote]

We can't help everyone, so we should help nobody...

The pilot programs are not scalable and are not designed to be scalable. They are designed to be pilot programs. The policies suggested by the results from the pilot programs certainly are scalable. What they probably aren't, is politically feasible. That's because we're a country where policies favored by large majorities of the population are somehow politically impossible to implement.[/quote]

The reason these programs are “successful” for those in the programs is because the same money is not being extended to everyone else. If everyone were getting this money, then prices go up, and they are stuck competing with everyone for the same amount of housing and resources, just with more money in the mix. In the end, the ones who win are those who own the capital, just as it has always been.[/quote]

So compare this those who have the benefits to WFH as a government employee against those employees who cannot. Those who can save on commute cost, eating out, childcare, etc, you are in effect getting free money from the government that others are not getting. But this is considered an essential good, because you are upper middle class women raising the next critical generation and this should be supported (really you mean subsidized) as much as possible. It is important that you can conveniently have two upper middle incomes to support thr lifestyle you want to have, and WFH makes that possible.[/quote]

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