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> Actually helping these people means improving their existing options, or giving them new better ones. Yes. A basic income for which one doesn't need to go in
by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Actually helping these people means improving their existing options, or giving them new better ones.
Yes. A basic income for which one doesn't need to go into the diamond mines, for example.
- pentae 5y agoOr how about a functioning government with minimal corruption for starters? clean water? a functional banking system? access to education? UBI is putting the cart before the horse
- frockington1 5y agoHow do you implement UBI without any centralized government and in some cases a functioning currency?
- gbear605 5y agoCharities like GiveDirectly do it using various mobile baking programs along with physically driving shipments of cash to remote areas that don’t have phone access. It’s a complicated problem that involves a lot of human time but it’s also a mostly solved problem.
- tom_mellior 5y agohttps://www.givedirectly.org/ https://www.givedirectly.org/ gives a basic income to poor people. It's not universal.
- simonh 5y agoWell of course, that's what I'm saying, just taking away jobs for miners doesn't do that.