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>But the only way we are going to afford a UBI-like program is to remove all the bureaucracy currently wasted to administer these programs.

This is why I believe that UBI will never actually be implemented. That bureaucracy consists of a lot of unionized jobs, and those workers vote.

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Related hilarious (and depressing) quote from Obama (which is in the book Bullshit Jobs):

“Everybody who supports single-payer health care says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents one million, two million, three million jobs [filled by] people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”

So unfortunate that some things move forward simply due to inertia. Eventually this inertia will be transferred as energy to other things, but it can be frustrating waiting for the ball to stop rolling!

It seems to have worked out just fine in most of Europe where everybody has access to healthcare.

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