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Job guarantees kill one of the key advantages of basic income: Basic income allows us to dramatically reduce the overhead in social services and other administr
by marvin 12y ago
Job guarantees kill one of the key advantages of basic income: Basic income allows us to dramatically reduce the overhead in social services and other administrative programs that choose who should get paid benefits and weed out those who abuse the system.
In a world of guaranteed jobs, you would either have to maintain the administration or force sick people to work. Not to mention that basic income could have the huge economic advantage of allowing people to productively use their time to develop products and services they couldn't afford to before. Some of the earners of basic income will certainly do great things with their freedom, which will benefit everyone.
- sjtrny 12y agoI don't think Job Guarantee proponents are suggesting that the sick and disabled also have to work. They continue to receive welfare without any work requirements. I'm not a JG proponent, I just thought your comment was miscontrueing their position.
- dasmoth 12y agoBut to implement that, you still need some administration to work out who's eligible for welfare and who needs to work. Basic Income schemes potentially eliminate this requirement.
- sjtrny 12y agoThere will still be a need for admin/bureaucracy with BI. Some people will need extra benefits because of their circumstances and people will have issues (e.g. suddenly their payments stop). I'm not convinced BI will decrease the number of support people since more people will actually be using the service.
- pinkyand 12y agothere could be an allowance for people to work on open source stuff, or a project of their own that has some value .if would increase beaurocracy a bit but its possible .
- dllthomas 12y agoIt would increase bureaucracy more than a bit, I think.