I can't manage to get past about paragraph two. What an idiotic piece of writing with zero basis in reality. Money is not a means to "vote" on what we should p

I can't manage to get past about paragraph two. What an idiotic piece of writing with zero basis in reality. Money is not a means to "vote" on what we should produce. Money is a means to reduce friction in the trade process. It does other things as well, but its primary purpose is to make it easier to get the things we want by reducing how much time and effort goes into coming up with a thing to trade for the thing we want. So, say you want a steak dinner and you are a programmer. You don't have to go to the restaurant and offer to program something for the owner in order to get your steak dinner. You program for your employer. They give you money. You take money to the restaurant. The restaurant doesn't have to have immediate need of programming to cut a deal with you. There is an argument to be made wrt the idea that lots of people are adding value to the system that is hard to quantify, hard to translate into money, etc and those people shouldn't be left out in the cold, not just because it is cruel, but because it actively harms the system as a whole. I was a homemaker and the feminization of poverty is a genuine phenomenon. A big piece of that puzzle isn't sexism per se, but the simple fact that women are expected to invest time and energy in taking care of other people on an ongoing basis. The degree to which they do this for other people often doesn't really come back to them. But, I am doubtful that basic income does anything to remedy that situation. In fact, I have fears that it would only serve to entrench the expectation that women should just accept basically being treated like slaves by the world around them. I don't think this is a good thing. It is one of the reasons I am not pro UBI. I think there are much better ways to try to not leave people out in the cold entirely. They include universal basic healthcare and access to genuinely affordable housing. Addressing those two issues wouldn't fix everything for everyone, but neither will UBI. I think this is an unusually good write up of some of what is broken with the idea of UBI: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/after-universal-basic-income-the-flood-217db9889c07 https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/after-universal-basic-incom...