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> The great thing about UBI money is that most of it would go straight back into the economy. Your first part of the comment sounds like the Broken Window Fall
by alfiedotwtf 6y ago
> The great thing about UBI money is that most of it would go straight back into the economy.
Your first part of the comment sounds like the Broken Window Fallacy and doesn’t answer the question.
> I think this is a much more moral and desirable outcome than the current situation where we rely on putting people in a position where they are forced into degrading, disgusting, or dangerous work. All too often that work is then used to belittle and degrade those people further.
Nice in theory, until you need a plumber for a broken toilet 3am on a Tuesday but nobody is a plumber anymore
(That’s speaking from experience working in the harsher conditions in the plumbing industry)
- Jochim 6y ago> Your first part of the comment sounds like the Broken Window Fallacy and doesn’t answer the question. Then you only read half of it. The question is how would it be paid for, and the answer I gave is that most of it would be paid for through increased tax revenue from increased economic activity. This is topped up by removing spending on the beauraucracy involved in means testing. > Nice in theory, until you need a plumber for a broken toilet 3am on a Tuesday but nobody is a plumber anymore UBI doesn't prevent anyone from being an emergency plumber, you just have to pay them enough that the task is actually worth doing rather than what they've been forced into accepting.