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Having a guaranteed basic income, free money, or whatever you want to call it, would assuage a lot of the resentment surrounding the perceptions of effort, luck
by Razengan 7y ago
Having a guaranteed basic income, free money, or whatever you want to call it, would assuage a lot of the resentment surrounding the perceptions of effort, luck, opportunity, merit, worth, earnings, taxes, parentage, connections etcetera that inevitably come up in these discussions, as they have on this post.
- patja 7y agoI also find this idea appealing. Reading the end of Gehttoside was an eye opener where the author describes how getting on SSDI (argued as being a limited form of basic income) for being unemployable (disabled) due to their history gang banging gave some former gangsters enough financial breathing room that they could break the cycle of relying on crime to get by. Sounds a little Polyanna-ish but it does have the ring of truth. What are your thoughts on the counter-arguments that basic income will lead to a dystopian future where an underclass just sullenly gets by as dependents of the state. Plenty of scifi speculative descriptions of this future are a bit scary, but are they just scare-mongering?