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88 – UBI and Other Forms of (Evil?) Taxes

The Bayesian Conspiracy

CHAPTER

The Inefficiencies of UBI

I don't see any benefited from like behavioral economics or anything like that, which overcomes just the basic silliness of having a bunch of people get a check from the government and then have to send it right back plus extra. Yeah, so there is that loss of overhead of paying the processing in the middle part, but I think that is a price that it would probably be a price we'd have to pay in order to get all those people to vote and sign on. But yeah, I don't know. Could be. It's not Robin Henson coined the phrase homo economicus? No, no, that's super old.Yeah, well, I think I heard about

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