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In what ways do you think UBI (in any country, not just Africa) would be insulated from the kinds of corruption you just described that occurs with groceries?
by cplusplusfellow 5y ago
In what ways do you think UBI (in any country, not just Africa) would be insulated from the kinds of corruption you just described that occurs with groceries?
- tbalsam 5y agoI'm not sure exactly what you're meaning here, but basically no corruption surface (basically) in terms of surface area for decision-making that could create perverse incentives based upon the actions of people choosing where money could go.If everyone receives a (very basic) UBI payout relatively frequently that's direct deposit, there could be fraud but not the weird large scale territorial abuse seen in many bloated welfare systems today. It's not a perfect answer by any stretch, but like a good lambda function, despite the occasional inefficiencies it is much more understandable, simple, and side-effect free. It sort of is a tool that can shift the degree of power law around the economics of a population without entirely obliterating motivation to compete in the marketplace, build things, and generally innovate/conduct business. I'd consider it a good regularizer, and it also puts sideways pressure on jobs to compete for people to fill them due to QoL being more commoditized since one is choosing between "work or live extremely frugally" vs "work or starve and maybe die". Bit of a drastic comparison but you get my drift.