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Coming in with the amplification of alt right conspiracy theorists hot take... How meta.

Absolutely, not to mention Eth just rolled out a major update last week. This rambling, bizarre article boils down to a few very basic, extremely played out arguments. Argument 1: …

Not to mention the US government recently sent $1,200 to a huge swath of the country and Alaska has had a similarly sized UBI-like fund for years. If we want we can chop it up and …

They're literally using the blockchain to distribute the tokens.

The shifting goalposts of this argument have been interesting to watch over the last 3-4 years. Stablecoins: I remember plenty of commenters being quite certain that volatility mad…

The UBI Center has a lot of good information about how tax revenue could be raised to pay for UBI: https://www.ubicenter.org/ It's interesting to see more and more rigorous analysi…

You realize you’re talking about likely more than a million life years lost already? Potentially much more damage when you consider dalys due to long term sequilae as well. How muc…

This is a classic pre-distribution versus redistribution debate. I’d just note that they are not mutually exclusive strategies and can both be undertaken simultaneously. You can se…

Exactly. It was the epidemiological modeling equivalent of suggesting we all inject disinfectant. Only it was worse because it was politically motivated instead of solely stupid.

Sorry but you’re completely wrong. If an analysis is making a reasonable effort to use the best or even some sort of relevant methodology in the field maybe. There is an entire fie…

This is a good way to get people to hide their infections and make stopping spread harder.

The term for what you’re talking about is typically referred to as an “income effect”. You could(and people do) make the same argument against the existing social safety net. You c…