Comment on Insulin

• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not if you stayed, then it’s an investment. Money doesn’t just disappear when goes to poor people, they use it to buy things like food and stuff. It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.

  The North American mind cannot comprehend the benefits of supporting the poor.

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  • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    UBI should be ubiquitous.

    UBI = Universal Basic Income

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    • bigboitricky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Amazing Americans say with their full chest this is socialism

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, there aren’t that many sane people in the US. A lot of them are under the impression that they’re sane because they take the “balanced” position, though, which is to say that they just choose whatever’s in between fascism and barely progressive policy while they call themselves intelligent.

      Frankly I’m not sure I’d want a bunch of people who cannot take accountability and who have such main-character energy they think that they would be allowed in while “bad” people wouldn’t be. We have enough problems with similar mindsets here in Canada and I really don’t want more of that except now they’re making it even harder to get away from our useless, conservative, Liberal(capital L) party.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah yes - subjecting ideological refugeess to arbitrary purity tests, a liberal classic.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And a hell of a good one. Adults will have already passed through education, so we would save on that part.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get that, the initial investment would be pretty significant.

    I’m not against it of course, I just think it’s necessary to understand the risks of any gamble.

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  • klay1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home. Only if you limit your view to your nation. ‘Back home’ across the border it would most likely also buy food etc. And that would be fine.

    The real drain is the infinite black hole of the rich guys pockets. That is where all the money is. Don’t blame people who send money to their loved ones to help, just because there is a border.

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