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Alanna Smith

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Actual "concerns" that hold UBI or social aid back: - "Need someone to suffer worse than me" - "Unfair to those who earned their wealth (could be me someday)" - "What if a type of person I don't like gets money?" - "They'll use it wrong" (usually thinking "Black folks will use it to buy drugs" 🙄)

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And other Reagan-style musings that folks don't stop to actually deconstruct 🙃 Spending more money to ensure only the "right people" receive aid, only people who pass some biased test, rather than just distributing aid to all those who need it, is a deeply unsettling practice

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