Universal basic income could come to California colleges

latimes.com

22 points·lxm··10 comments

Not universal. It is payment only to lower income students. Universal would be all students regardless of income status.

https://archive.is/8ZuRj

> “College students are couch surfing and sleeping in their cars. This could be enough money to rent a room, and if you don’t need a room, by all means, use it for what you do need it for,” Cortese said in an interview.

> Campuses under consideration for the pilot program include CSU Los Angeles; San Francisco State; CSU East Bay; San Jose State and Fresno State.

Aren't all but Fresno State mostly commuter schools?

I get a paywall, but my main question is why? We don’t need as many college educated students as we are producing today. There’s no need to incentivize it further. So is this just vote bank politics at work?

Sure dude. Make sure you children's never get educated, that would solve all the problem. We need lesser education.

We need more stem education, but not as much arts or political science

We definitely need the arts, political science I'm not so sure about

Failed or grotesque implementations of ubi would be useful for people who don't want it. California is also bonkers with bureacracy.

Nobody in charge has the slightest clue what they're doing, everyone just has checklist items to tick off, then money gets shuffled from point a to point b and they claim success.

UBI works as a concept only if it's universal. If it's shuffling money from taxpayers to non-taxpayers, it's something entirely different.

Perhaps if we had more a more educated populace, people would stop electing clowns who lie to them.

On both sides, its clowns all around

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