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So is paying 5000 people to dig holes in the dessert and another 5000 to later fill in those holes. I lived through something similar to that in Eastern Europe
by PopsiclePete 10y ago
So is paying 5000 people to dig holes in the dessert and another 5000 to later fill in those holes.
I lived through something similar to that in Eastern Europe in the 1990's. Spoiler alert: doesn't end well.
- Unklejoe 10y ago...yet a large number of people here seem to support a UBI. I'm not saying I agree with wasting money, but I feel like this very same argument usually gets shunned when it comes up in UBI debates. Maybe shunned isn't the right word...perhaps "less well received". I also don't mean to imply that you support a UBI.
- tdb7893 10y agoI'm not sure how this is relevant to UBI. I thought UBI was supposed to simplify welfare issues and would have nothing to do with military contracts
- marcosdumay 10y agoPeople receiving UBI still have time to work on useful stuff. That makes it completely different from the keynesianist digging and covering of holes.
- saiya-jin 10y agoyou won't find many supporters of UBI in eastern europe countries, at least not among employed population. we've been through some idealistic crap back there and then that looked great on the paper, but failed due to human nature... as always
- informatimago 10y agoIndeed! Imagine if instead, they've paid a universal basic income to everybody with that money, and people, including those engineers were free to work on useful stuff!