Y Combinator’s basic income study is result of white unemployment

... cause white lives don't matter?

If you go a few hundred miles west of the east coast in a band following the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to the Southern Tier of New York you will find a population of whites who have the same "black problems" that Daniel Patrick Moynihan talks about from fractured families to meaningless encounters with the police that have a devastating effect. This same population is often antagonistic to blacks, once more resulting in harmful and meaningless encounters -- such as one relative of mine who got mad because his ex-girlfriend was going out with a black so he got drunk and picked a fight with some blacks and was moaning in pain the next day with two black eyes, an icepack on his face and a fistfull of percocet in him.