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Interesting aside: One of the RAND's predictions (No. 24) is for "International agreements which guarantee certain economic minima to the world's population as
by stygiansonic 10y ago
Interesting aside: One of the RAND's predictions (No. 24) is for "International agreements which guarantee certain economic minima to the world's population as a result of high production from automation", which sounds pretty much like Basic Income, along with some of the same arguments we've heard recently about why it will be increasingly needed. (Not saying I agree nor disagree)
- gpvos 10y agoThe RAND study is from 1964. There have been several experiments with basic income systems in the US and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, and I may assume that the general idea is even older.
- paulajohnson 10y agoIt is. The idea was floated by the US founding fathers as a form of compensation for having all the land parceled up and owned. Further back you have the Levelers who were essentially proto-communists.