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I hear this a lot but in reading Paine’s writings, I can only find ideas somewhat similar to Social Security payments for elderly people. I have not been able t
by innocentoldguy 7y ago
I hear this a lot but in reading Paine’s writings, I can only find ideas somewhat similar to Social Security payments for elderly people. I have not been able to find anything in Paine’s writings that is synonymous with the concept of UBI. I’m not saying it isn’t in there somewhere, just that I haven’t found it.
Would you mind citing specifically where you found this information?
- ineedasername 7y agoI'm not familiar with his writings to cite more detail, but it seems to me if he supported a sort of Social Security, then he was advocating for a targeted UBI. Maybe that's just semantics though.
- CuriousSkeptic 7y agoIn Agrarian Justice he proposes to “ create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property” He also makes it very clear that this isn’t some form of charity to help people. But rather about justice
- danesparza 7y agoWait -- so did I misunderstand? Is this more like reparations to native americans or slaves? I'm confused.
- CuriousSkeptic 7y agoYou can read it in full here https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice But no he argues that “Every individual in the world is born therein with legitimate claims on a certain kind of property, or its equivalent.”