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Seattle Should Pay People Not to Shoplift (www.thestranger.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So a UBI?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Shhhh, don't let the cat out of the bag

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or make the stores pay for the cops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When has adding a cop to a situation made it better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah to be clear I don’t think it would good, but the article was saying to either do the proposed UBI or make the stores pay for the cops.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I appreciate your clarification.

I'm pretty sure we all know which option would be chosen, unfortunately, and it's not the way that would actually help people.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

eh, stealing is illegal. build more prisons.