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The additional complication is problematic, as is the additional control / disempowerment. Such as: - Who decides the list of goods? - Who provides them? - Who
by RangerScience 8y ago
The additional complication is problematic, as is the additional control / disempowerment.
Such as:
- Who decides the list of goods?
- Who provides them?
- Who delivers them?
Ex: Pizza as a vegetable.
Sure, you'll have people make shit decisions - but part of the point (IMHO) of UBI is that a shit decision this month doesn't have to screw you next month.
My brother also always points out that "shrinkage" (from retail) is a really good concept to apply to welfare programs: The cost to 100% anything far outweighs the benefit to 100% that.
- dahdum 8y agoYes, it's a program that is at high risk of overexpansion like many others. It would be constantly attacked for not providing "healthy" options like fresh fruit, organic flour, more variety and whatnot. I just wish we could do stuff like this. Same with housing, provide budget accommodations in low cost areas and you'll be accused of creating ghettos and modern day internment camps. So we spend much more to subsidize housing in the highest cost, most desirable regions, leaving far too many without anything.
- RangerScience 8y agoRight. Or you give people the capacity to make their own choices (and make sure the market can function as properly, which is non-trivial). Any kind of goods/services delivery removes people's capacity to make their own choices.