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Here's the only UBI experiment I'm interested in seeing: 1. Take a bunch of people 2. Make them all give you 20% if their income for X years 3. Give them all
by grahamburger 9y ago
Here's the only UBI experiment I'm interested in seeing:
1. Take a bunch of people
2. Make them all give you 20% if their income for X years
3. Give them all back ((total money in) - (overhead costs to run the program)) / (total participants)
I suspect it would be difficult to find people who would participate willingly.
- grahamburger 9y agoRather than downvotes I would love to hear other ideas about how to fund UBI. Experimenting with only the good side seems silly - of course poor people's lives will get better if we give them money. But only experimenting with that side of the equation isn't testing UBI, it's just testing a different kind of welfare or charity. Maybe we can learn some things about welfare, but we're not learning anything about UBI.
- neilwilson 9y agoThere's never an issue with funding it. The problem is that it always ends up being a form of theft in real terms from somebody. They eventually get fed up with the bad deal and either stop producing or end the system. https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/is-basic-income-basically-theft-a95eeedb5aad https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/is-basic-income-basi...
- AdrianB1 9y agoIt is done in parts of the world, it's called taxes and you get back "services" (sometimes you get something, sometimes you get nothing) and the 20% is around 50-70% in Europe.
- grahamburger 9y agoSo - why not do the experiment? You think people would go for it?
- AdrianB1 9y agoNo, they would not. Unless you ask them at gunpoint (or threaten with jail, that's the same for me) they will not, it does not make sense after you lived in communism for a lot of time to go back that route.