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Rather 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
by grahamburger 9y ago
Rather 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...