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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Interesting, would this be a case that shows that basic income wouldn't work?
Wouldn't that be orthogonal to basic income? i.e. You'd get that anyways so it would cancel out?
Assuming no basic income, you're right.
sounds like a good use of a basic income
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.
Basic Income and forget about it.
How expensive is it to NOT provide a "basic income"?
How does this become basic income?
Compare https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...
Basic income is not free money, it's redistribution so that every people can live humane life.