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April 25, 2019, 02:06:08 AM

Haven't really thought it through, but I'd certainly prefer that over uncapped benefits per child. A policy that is heavily exploited by certain groups of people and partially responsible for the anti-refugee rhetoric.

There was one family with two underage wives on public television proudly stating that they have no intention of ever working. All while receiving social welfare for each wive and child support for each kid. Of course people who paid 60% taxes their entire life and live around the poverty line will get pissed off at that, and rightfully so.

Yes. I may be sounding insensitive or non empathic... but it is when I think about those kind of people when I become that way. Too many groups of people FULLY AND COMPLETELY living off the rest, without working, and spending more than I do. It's completely crazy. Sometimes I think maybe I should become one of those. It really upsets me.
That family seemed genuinely nice although in that naive and incapable of grasping the consequences of their actions kind of way.


But they should not be supported and they are precisely why I am dead against any social welfare that isn't an unconditional UBI.

That much I can tolerate to level the playing field and disarm literally everybody who dares complain about wealth inequality. People go from 0 to Forbes 100 all the time and with a UBI nobody could even attempt to make a case for "exploitation" or any other types of "qq unfair".

But financially incentivizing the degeneration of humanity is just plain wrong. There's a reason why IQs in the West have been in decline. It's precisely because all responsibility is delegated to figures of authority with misaligned incentives.

The problem is that smarter people are capping their parenting to one or two children (or none) while the low IQs/irresponsible people do have on average more children even if they can't support them. So that's what next generations will be.....

Couple that with the advances in technology/optimisation of processes that will get rid of MANY current jobs that will become unnecesary/obsolete and you have a recipe for a perfect disaster.