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No, it's a huuuuuge problem when people become addicted to easy money and never work again. Why would they, it's their right to get paid not to. Welfare is bet
by Rule35 6y ago
No, it's a huuuuuge problem when people become addicted to easy money and never work again. Why would they, it's their right to get paid not to.
Welfare is better than UBI because welfare ends. Welfare encourages competence and self-reliance. And welfare can be extended in cases where there really aren't any jobs. It can do what UBI does, but without the fatal flaws.
- ryandrake 6y agoAnyone who currently receives sufficient passive income gets "easy" money, reducing their need to work if they don't want to. Should we end dividends, royalties, and pensions?
- Rule35 6y agoWhich would reduce their drive to work because you took away the fruits of their labor. People need an incentive - something they don't have, which they will attain. UBI takes away one of those, your proposal would eliminate the other.
- eggsmediumrare 6y agoWhy do people need an incentive? Why can't people just raise their kids, maintain their communities and generally just live a simple life?
- Rule35 6y agoWhy do they need to strive? They don't. They totally could be happy as you describe. But you know they won't be. They aren't wired to be happy with a little because they won't value it because they didn't work for it. For a depression-era farmer even a little success was still survival and so it mattered. But for someone who doesn't do anything to produce their own goods and so never feels accomplished because of skill or effort, anything less than what the other guy has will be intolerable. They won't work for anything, so they won't accept hard work as a reason why the other guy deserves to get to keep what he produced, and they'll steal it, killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.