Like many social assistance policies, opposition to guaranteed income is driven by a deep-seated fear of fraud — of “freeloaders” benefiting from the taxes of hard-working, morally upright citizens. Our collective delusion that we live in a meritocracy is operationalized into a punitive framework that rationalizes who deserves help and who does not.

As a result, we spend enormous administrative effort policing eligibility, while leaving many people without adequate help. Poverty persists not because we lack resources, but because we mistrust the people who need them.

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[–] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I still don't get why they spend tax money on the military but when we need a penny to pay for our rent suddenly there's a deficit.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Without a massive, sprawling, byzantine bureaucracy to oversee the nation's squads of ruthless killers, everyone in Canada would be speaking... idk, Muslim or something. Evil Foreigners would be all up in your business, is my point.

    Meanwhile, if you weren't up to your eyeballs in debt, how would we entice you to work triple overtime at the radioactive burn pit?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Fingers crossed

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I hope so but highly doubt it.

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