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mytailorisrichlast Friday at 9:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Unfortunately, as usual no-one replies to what was written but instead go full strawman on a single point because it is easier.

For instance: "You keep claiming there is a moral problem with giving people enough of a basic stipend to actually live out of the gutter."

I have never suggested this...

"... and using that as justification to either browbeat the recipients of minimum-quality-of-life benefits"

Or that.

"A morality that treats work as virtuous for its own sake"

And neither have I that...

Interesting how people have also latched on my mentioning morals and ignored everything else.


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Kim_Bruninglast Friday at 3:16 PM

Oh, can you reframe? Maybe I'm reading wrong too (sorry if I did).

Meanwhile, I noticed a slight detail which both sides may have missed? : Job-finding rates were equal with the treatment and control group. Which makes sense in a high-trust society actually.