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Couldn't disagree more! We shouldn't try to provide poverty-level income. We should ensure that people can live with dignity. As a side-effect, we will also gu

• dllthomas 13y ago
  To me, it is not obvious that it is wrong to say "to live with dignity you must do something that benefits others in a way the market can recognize, or have a compelling story why you can't," for some value of "dignity" which is partly dependent on the surplus capacity of society.
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Couldn't disagree more! We shouldn't try to provide poverty-level income. We should ensure that people can live with dignity. That's a nice goal, but its probably not practical on basic income given current technology and means of production; the more automation advances, the more basic income can be (and, arguably, the more it needs to be) but if you aim to high you end up driving down production and driving up prices uncontrollably.