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Counterargument Construction
Claim: "Universal basic income would make people lazy and destroy the economy because no one would want to work."
UBI is a great idea because everyone deserves free money.
UBI pilot programs in Finland, Kenya, and Stockton, CA showed that recipients continued to work at similar rates, while experiencing reduced stress and improved health outcomes — suggesting the 'laziness' premise is empirically false.
People who oppose UBI just don't care about the poor.
The economy is already destroyed anyway, so UBI can't make it worse.