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A lot of unemployed are mentally ill, psychologically unstable or disabled people. How much oversight will you need to get any meaningful output from them? Yeah, they come and try to be useful, but they don't accomplish anything, you fire them, they either go to court or apply to another job they can't do.

BIG solves this but Basic Job doesn't in the slightest.



The mentally ill and disabled are simply a different problem. Handing $1200/month in free money to a schizophrenic is not a solution either.


The whole idea is to decrease a number of "different problems" as much as possible. I don't know if it would help schizophrenics, but why not? At least it can get one off street by providing means to pay rent (which can be administred by his/her legal guardian).




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