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It doesn't go to everybody It has to, because one of the selling point of it is the minimal administrative overhead. In the U.K. we have armies of civil servan
by goatinaboat 6y ago
It doesn't go to everybody
It has to, because one of the selling point of it is the minimal administrative overhead. In the U.K. we have armies of civil servants to administer our hideously complex welfare system. All of them and the costs of employing them have to go to make it affordable. The good news is that they too will get UBI...
- notahacker 6y agoAdministering the welfare system costs orders of magnitude less than paying unconditional living wage to the UK's 8 million economically inactive working age people.
- goatinaboat 6y agounconditional living wage Living wage is shifting the goalposts, anyway it’s a simple calculation, total welfare budget including benefits of all kinds divided by number of adult citizens.
- notahacker 6y agoWhilst there might be disagreements over the actual calculation, both the idea of a living wage and a UBI revolve around the idea of providing an adequate subsistence income for an adult. But if we're determining welfare budget by dividing non-pension benefit spend by number of working age adults, the problem becomes that you're dividing around 130 billion by ~36 million, and whilst that's a welcome top up for some people, there are a lot of people who have just lost their housing benefit and disability benefit that won't be able to live on £4k a year...
- akvadrako 6y agoIt is minimal overhead. All you need to check is someone is a living citizen and their age, because children likely get less.