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submitted 1 year ago by sv1sjp@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

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[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because the argument they are trying to refute is "in general, if you give homeless people free money, they won't use it on the things they should be using it on, they'll just be lazy because they're obviously bad with money."

They are NOT trying to refute the (pointless) argument that "there are some homeless people who would waste free money on things like drugs and alcohol".

They are refuting the general argument against UBI, not the specific argument against individual people

this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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