On: Replacing welfare payments with “basic income” for all is alluring, but expensive

[ZeroGravitas]

The money saved is in police time, emergency health care, etc. so you'd need a way for a private enterprise to claim the savings that result from housing the homeless to make this market work.

[greggyb → ZeroGravitas]

In a large city these are all city services, which implies that a startup could work with the city as the customer.