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World with basic income might create a class of people, who will demand to increase it (because why not, people who are not working and will be given some money
by piokoch 5y ago
World with basic income might create a class of people, who will demand to increase it (because why not, people who are not working and will be given some money for this will have a lot of time to organize themselves in some kind of strange union), if this group will be large enough it will soon find a political party that will absorb such group.
However to give away money, you need to get them from somewhere, basic income means that work will be taxed more heavily. At some point this will break economy and, in less optimistic scenario, lead to social unrest or takeover of the power by some ultra populist party - we have already seen in the history how helping the poor, discriminated "class" typically ends.