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Why not just have a YC charity?

• dev1n 10y ago
  Good question. I believe the thinking behind the UBI experiment is that YC wants to specifically do an experiment. Not start a charity. Maybe down the line YC would consider starting a charity but I don't think that's in their gameplan. This is specifically to answer a very explicit question. Charities don't normally do that sort of thing.
• RobertoG 10y ago
  With this question, and in all this thread actually, basic income is put in the framework of "what could we do with all those people"? I think that we should be open to another kind of narratives about this issue. For instance, we could change the name from "basic income" to "automation dividend". In this way we could think of it as a right to a share, in the hard work of all the past generations, that created the immense pool of infrastructure and knowledge that we enjoy nowadays. Also, we shouldn't forget that, in a few years, all 'those people' could be us.