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>When you want something from someone - food, medicine, etc. - you're going to have to offer something in return What if the value of someone's labour is not e
by aninhumer 10y ago
>When you want something from someone - food, medicine, etc. - you're going to have to offer something in return
What if the value of someone's labour is not enough for the things they need to survive? There's no function of the market that ensures it will be.
At some point, you either have to help people out without anything in return, or choose to let them die.
- CWuestefeld 10y agoWhat if the value of someone's labour is not enough for the things they need to survive? Sure, we can make a moral argument about that. But that's not what this branch of the debate is about. We were debating the proposition that "money itself tends to disincentivise work for a lot of people" and employment is force. But since you bring it up, my biggest concern about BI is along the same lines as your moral question. Suppose that every year we hand out $X,000 to each person. Some people are going to waste that on booze, gambling, etc., and still be left with nothing to eat. What's our moral obligation to those people?
- mac01021 10y ago> What's our moral obligation to those people? I think we can all agree it to be none.