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Is this what people mean when they say “UBI is impossible?” I think we will need some realistic experiments to gather evidence as, obviously I think, UBI can’t
by prepend 4y ago
Is this what people mean when they say “UBI is impossible?”
I think we will need some realistic experiments to gather evidence as, obviously I think, UBI can’t be rolled out in a country of hundreds of millions without evidence of success. Or at least evidence of no or minimal harm.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoReally, any broad based wealth redistribution that is not able to disproportionately benefit certain voting blocs is politically impossible. UBI lays bare all the subsidies various tribes get in an easily comparable number, which will not be sufficiently popular among active voters.
- origin_path 4y agoUBI is not so much impossible as unfalsifiable: the only obvious way to test it makes it not UBI. UBI looks a lot like a minor rebranding of communist economic policy and has the same no-true-Scotsman problem in which failures are brushed off with "that's not real {UBI/communism}".