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Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century

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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin

For those not familiar with this old idiom, it means it’s less costly to avoid problems from ever happening in the first place, than it is to fix problems once they do. It also happens to be the entire logic behind the invention of the vaccine, and it is my belief that universal basic income has the same potential.

Source: https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-d66dff39073