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How does the basic income works against immigration (including illegal)? Because it seems that once you declared basic income and nobody wants to work anymore,
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
How does the basic income works against immigration (including illegal)?
Because it seems that once you declared basic income and nobody wants to work anymore, you'll get a huge influx of immigrants from the third world (who would be like slaves but even more oppressed) plus they will be trying to get citisenship as hard as they can.
Won't be pretty.
- scarmig 14y ago"Because it seems that once you declared basic income and nobody wants to work anymore" That's not in evidence: most programmers could work a month out of the year and have the amount of money provided by a basic income, but they choose to work much more than that. But I digress. Immigration is one of the more interesting challenges for a BI, but I think it's overstated. As alluded to above, there's still all the incentive in the world to work even while receiving a basic income: which is to say, more income. You would want to make sure that you don't have a huge immediate influx of immigrants, but that's pretty simple: limit the number of immigrants in to a manageable amount (whatever that is), and only give citizenship to an immigrant once they've lived here for X years. At that point they'd have been working aplenty, paying taxes, and building skills: on citizenship and receiving the income, they'd have the same skills and incentives to continue working.
- lilsunnybee 14y agoif a basic income is $10000 a year, i doubt that many people are going to be falling over themselves to stop working and try to scrape by on just that.