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All good points, lifeisstillgood. But I'll point out this thread was mainly about "guaranteed minimum income" and this is the first time you stated that you con
by drcode 13y ago
All good points, lifeisstillgood. But I'll point out this thread was mainly about "guaranteed minimum income" and this is the first time you stated that you consider "welfare" to be a short term provision :-)
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoOk, so welfare as an ideal is enough to cover the life-altering disasters that afflict us all, some more than others. Cover as in ensure they can be dealt with, and life return to normal productive one in reasonable amount of time. That is the theory - in practise we have many muddled implementations of this - and I don't see a guaranteed minimum income as automatically bad. It will have market distorting effects but then the market has not historically been fast enough moving to help relieve people who have suddenly lost a job / limb. In fact a more laissez-faire period produced workhouses. So ideally welfare is a short term provision. The current implementations are all a bit crap and I see no major reason why minimum incomes would be automatically worse.