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In addition, "workfare" is a well-tested approach that has given good results in the past [1] [2]. What's to stop someone on UBI from joining a gang, anyway?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Writers%27_Project



Penalize their UBI for felony convictions. Doesn't have to be all, but UBI can make it a citizen's "job" to not do crime.


>do crime

This particular verb with the word crime--may I ask if you are an American? I've only ever heard people who are not from America say it this way. Americans always seem to say "commit" crime.




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