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France is doing it all wrong though. The whole point of UBI is to eliminate all of the red tape around employment and other social welfare programs. Give peopl
by darawk 10y ago
France is doing it all wrong though. The whole point of UBI is to eliminate all of the red tape around employment and other social welfare programs.
Give people a UBI/healthcare cushion to fall back on, and then employers hire/fire people at will. Eliminate the minimum wage. Create a vicious job market with zero protections (other than safety, of course) that is geared entirely towards efficiency.
This will work out ok because a minimum wage will then occur naturally, because people will be able to make free decisions about whether it's worth it for them to work or not.
The real goal of UBI ought to be to collapse every other form of social welfare under its umbrella. Give people the basic resources they need to live: money and health insurance. After that, the name of the game is economic efficiency and productivity.
- refurb 10y agoSo you pay a healthy 20-year old the same as a bed-bound disabled 60 year old? I don't think the needs are the same. You have no choice to maintain some of the other social welfare programs since not everyone can live off just UBI (unless it's really high).
- darawk 10y agoThe bed-bound 60 year old's expensive needs would presumably be covered by the universal health insurance. His non-health-related costs would actually probably be lower than a 20 year old's, since he of course doesn't do anything and probably doesn't eat as much.
- refurb 10y agoThat would work well if all of the support needed by the disabled person fell under a single universal healthcare program, but it often doesn't. Disabled people often need non-medical assistance as well. Those are often separate social programs.