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The people the article is discussing are already receiving a free money and do not need to work. How will writing "basic income" rather than "disability" or "we

• Arizhel 10y ago
  Simple: with UBI, you can eliminate a gigantic amount of bureaucracy in administering those programs. How much time and money is wasted in employing armies of public servants to go chase after welfare recipients and make sure they aren't "cheating" by making money somehow, or that disability recipients aren't "cheating" by not being as disabled as they claim? It doesn't help that welfare punishes people who want to work.
  • yummyfajitas 10y ago
    So the current leisure class will not be helped at all by a BI, relative to what they already have. Since you think a BI will save money, could you do a back of the envelope calculation illustrating how that would work? I can't see how (for example) 10M on welfare + 1M administrators could possibly be cheaper than 100M on welfare.
    • oftenwrong 10y ago
      Relevant: If We Can Afford Our Current Welfare System, We Can Afford Basic Income https://medium.com/basic-income/if-we-can-afford-our-current-welfare-system-we-can-afford-basic-income-9ae9b5f186af#.2yyq7pacn https://medium.com/basic-income/if-we-can-afford-our-current...
      • yummyfajitas 10y ago
        Those numbers suggest about 10% overhead. Giving free money to 900% more people in order to save 10% on overhead is not a cost saving strategy. Your article proves my point, even though it goes to great effort not to admit that.