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koolba
on Aug 8, 2020
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Debt collector profits soar with people flush and ...
The worst situation I’ve seen are workers that work primarily on commissions and were
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laid off. They’re stuck at their State minimums without any “Covid bonus” while seeing others get $1000/week sitting at home. It’s very perverse.
orangecat
on Aug 9, 2020
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Yeah. This would have been a good time to introduce UBI, but instead we doubled down on the perverse incentives of existing welfare systems.
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