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Chris2048 on May 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and mad...

What if they can't provide more value than enough to get food and shelter?

aianus on May 13, 2017 [–]

Then they should still work at $4/h or whatever and the government should top them off to $10/h with basic income or welfare.

It's more efficient and humane than basically telling them they're worthless and they should just stay unemployed.

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