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What good is a social policy if you have to implement it at national scale for an unlimited time to see if it works as advertised?
by lambdaphagy 8y ago
What good is a social policy if you have to implement it at national scale for an unlimited time to see if it works as advertised?
- sokoloff 8y agoThat largely describes US Social Security.
- constantlm 8y agoDemocracy worked out pretty well.
- dantheman 8y agoDemocracy scales and in fact works better in small groups than large groups...
- CWuestefeld 8y agoDemocracy was tried in many different settings and scopes, over the course of many centuries, before gaining a real foothold. America was NOT a great experiment in a new approach to government - or if it was, that experiment was with a Constitutionally limited system. It was implemented in ancient Greece as we're all taught. At the time of America's founding, there was already a democracy of sorts in place in the Netherlands. Along the way, many other institutions implemented it - for example, pirate ships were often democracies, with the captain chosen by popular acclamation.
- icebraining 8y agoWho said anything about the US?
- fnordsensei 8y agoThe exciting stuff with negative tax/basic income is to see the systemic effects kick in. And yes, this will be very hard to test small-scale. Kind of how it would be very hard to test whether democracy works or not by giving one person a vote.
- jasonkostempski 8y agoI'm only speaking to the value of the experiment. Maybe something can be learned by conducting it, but not about the viability of UBI. It was a waste of time and money in that regard. However, the people who have to deal with other people asking about UBI can now say "Our studies show UBI to be a waste of time and money."