>With a sufficient basic income, you could effectively get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public subsidies in all types of places they

>With a sufficient basic income, you could effectively get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public subsidies in all types of places they're unnecessary or harmful. And you remove the disincentive effect on productivity that most welfare schemes have. This might be a stretch, but this could be seen as the part mentioned in the article: “The idea of unconditional income comes from the failure of conditional programmes. As soon as there are conditions, there is erosion. Conditionality means intermediaries, which means power, which means corruption.” But then again, what will all the companies that benefit handsomely from these conditional programes do (outside of lobbying with the money they are currently given by government)?