What If We Just Gave Poor People Summary

The article, “What if We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life? That’s What we’re about to Test” discusses the possibility in providing basic universal income to families and people living in poverty. The idea of providing a substantial amount of money for the people in poverty, just enough to live their daily life by fulfilling the basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing. The article is effective in using the rhetoric triangle and stock issues strategy in creating an effective account of providing basic income to people in need of substantial support in getting by daily.
The author in the article providing a pathos, an emotional thought in the introduction, second, and third paragraphs in the idea of the poor needing the money to greatly improve their standard of living. The second paragraph presents an underlying assumption of the poor and the problems people generate when the poor are given money, but spend the money on an irrational decision. The third paragraph then use rebuttals about the poor’s productive usage of the money in bettering the life of their families and livelihood. Ethos is use in the following paragraphs of four to eight in justifying the need of universal pay sufficient enough for survival. The author
The impact of the basic income in these community details in bettering the life of those individuals and supporting families in those community. The experimental test of providing basic, universal income need an accurate report of the impact, the need of long term commitment, and universal pay for everyone, these three categories are currently in progress to fully assess the situation. The simplicity of a basic income emphasize on the affordable context in solving poverty and gradual change throughout the period of time in changing the status