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Downstream: Is It Time for a Universal Basic Income? w/ Will Stronge

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The Cost of Unconditional Income

Unconditional cash will have to come to being in this century either if we're serious about tackling welfare conditionality as a human rights issue. It'll require a lot of resources. These things cost money. That model does basically get rid of poverty for a stop. So that's why they had it on the more ambitious end. I don't know the total cost. Again, it's in the report of the full full, let's say, Model 3 scheme. But nonetheless... Well, the threshold would disappear, right? The present tax threshold, which people don't pay if you do it unless in 12 grand a year, whatever it is, that would disappear. Yeah.

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