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We're all entirely dependent one things outside our control, and it's a worldview that's romanticized to the point of silliness to say anything else. As for th
by Frondo 8y ago
We're all entirely dependent one things outside our control, and it's a worldview that's romanticized to the point of silliness to say anything else.
As for the land grant you're talking about, that's a huge, huge give-away right there; and, I'd note, in your hypothetical, you already inverted the sequence of events (be given land => you keep it, work hard => you get $250k).
All UBI does is recognize that, given how technological progress puts people out of jobs, we'd better find alternatives to distributing resources than what we do now, because we're going to end up with a lot of heads on spikes if we don't.
- njarboe 8y ago"All UBI does" UBI is a very specific solution to a very real and difficult problem. I think other solutions to the problem of quick technical advances would be better, that's all. The sequence is , you are given a resource for a period of time, see if you can use it well, if you do you get to keep it. Not sure what a good modern equivalent would be but such a scheme seems like a much better mode to the future than a UBI. Or maybe a combination of things.
- sharkmerry 8y agoWhat if you're given farmland and have a 5 year drought? What other solutions are you talking about? Except giving away land?