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Right now the people who don't want to work cost us a lot of money, a large fraction of which doesn't even go to them.

To a certain degree, I see it like the war on drugs. Yes, ending the war on drugs will increase drug usage, but not as much as many people think, and the costs of dealing with that will be less than the costs we spend on prohibition.



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