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Can you imagine government-issue food, clothing, and shelter? That's destined to be some horribly depressing Soviet-type shit right there. With a basic income,
by jcromartie 12y ago
Can you imagine government-issue food, clothing, and shelter? That's destined to be some horribly depressing Soviet-type shit right there.
With a basic income, even the people who are not working can participate in the market and drive the competition and innovation of people who are producing goods and services.
- tomjen3 12y agoExactly. The point is to make it so that you can survive like that but you always have incentives to work, even a little. If you don't you will walk around in clothing that is obviously provided by the state (manufactures of clothing will work hard to make sure their clothing doesn't look like that), living a state area, eathing state food (may be pretty healthy, actually) - so everybody will know you belong on the bottom of society. Yet nobody really suffers like they do today, nobody has to go hungry (this also helps those whoes parents aren't good with money, since they will still get food) nobody has to become homeless.
- jcromartie 12y agoShame is a terrible motivator. Instead you'll probably get even more stratification and ghettoization, while the "haves" operate in their own bubble. You have concocted a perfect setup for a cyberpunk dystopian future, and honestly it would make a pretty good plot. I'm imagining the urchins living in identical concrete boxes that make up the under-city dwellings, lining up in droves for their government pants.