• Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    For anyone curious, 6.5m out of the 38m total population claimed it. So it would cost close to 6x as much if given to everyone (if even children included).

    I support the concept of basic income in general, but this was a different situation specific to COVID job loss.