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Would children and retirees also claim basic income?

• gpm 11y ago
  Retirees presumably yes, since differentiating 'retired' vs 'unemployed' involves the sort of expensive invasive work that UBI looks to obsolete.
  • jerf 11y ago
    Part of the reason I'm not a UBI proponent is that I have absolutely no confidence in the ability of the real world to "obsolete" that much work. Literally the next bill passed after UBI would be a bill to limit and/or extend it somehow to some favored or disfavored interest. We got to where we are not because of arcane technical procedures, we got to where we are because of the humans in the government. Pass UBI with the same humans in the same government and the same result will occur at speed.
    • undersuit 11y ago
      >Literally the next bill passed after UBI would be a bill to limit and/or extend it somehow to some favored or disfavored interest. It's universal. You can't extend it, it's universal. You could limit it, but then it's obviously not universal. I'm not saying it's impossible, but by definition anything not universal is not Universal Basic Income.
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• zardo 11y ago
  Children are included in the basic income in Alaska.