Basic Income Debate

Cluster centers on debates about universal basic income's effectiveness, including its potential to address unemployment or poverty, concerns over costs, inflation, taxation, and comparisons to welfare systems.

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misja111 Jul 11, 2018 View on HN

Interesting, would this be a case that shows that basic income wouldn't work?

nightski May 28, 2015 View on HN

Wouldn't that be orthogonal to basic income? i.e. You'd get that anyways so it would cancel out?

DennisP May 28, 2014 View on HN

Assuming no basic income, you're right.

jtmcmc Feb 9, 2018 View on HN

sounds like a good use of a basic income

bicubic Jan 3, 2017 View on HN

Basic income isn't some magical panacea. It does exactly the same thing as social security/welfare, but slightly more efficiently. It has the same problem: the rich aren't going to give up money to make it work. Would you accept a 10% tax hike on your income? Because that's roughly what it would take to make basic income provide anything resembling a quality of life to the incoming jobless class.

transfire Aug 30, 2022 View on HN

Basic Income and forget about it.

mellavora May 24, 2015 View on HN

How expensive is it to NOT provide a "basic income"?

Mz Apr 7, 2016 View on HN

How does this become basic income?

eru Nov 3, 2025 View on HN

Compare https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...

chunsj Jan 3, 2017 View on HN

Basic income is not free money, it's redistribution so that every people can live humane life.