Nicole M. Luongo
1 min readOct 5, 2020

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Thanks for this. Perhaps you cover it in the longer piece, but I’m surprised you didn’t explore structural racism and the other historic inequalities that prompted the need for this project in the first place. With such a heavy focus on the individual, this veers into de-politicizing poverty. I’m also curious about your conclusions around UBI. Obviously it’s great in the short term, but under capitalism it wouldn’t be sustainable because privatized services (I.e. health care) would just increase economic barriers to entry (that is, get more expensive). I don’t think UBI is the silver bullet that some assume it to be. As a disabled person who gets a (paltry) “guaranteed income” every month, I’m still very much excluded from society and the resources that would significantly improve my quality of life. A robust welfare state would address this in ways that UBI can’t within our current political and economic systems.

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Nicole M. Luongo
Nicole M. Luongo

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