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The Chicago school is a driving force behind the NIT, and I'm pretty sure Friedman wasn't secretly shilling for the Mossad or whatever the intelligence agency d
by chiaro 11y ago
The Chicago school is a driving force behind the NIT, and I'm pretty sure Friedman wasn't secretly shilling for the Mossad or whatever the intelligence agency du jour may be. Dismissing ideas based on disagreement with some of their lesser proponents is not logically sound.
- blumkvist 11y agoI'm not dismissing the idea because of the unsound reasoning in lesser proponents. I'm opposed to the idea because it ignores how humans work - like any animal - on an incentive program. Your body needs water? Drink that glass, get hormones released for the good job! Much more so when we talk about high level activities. If you remove the incentive system from the social framework we live in, people will simply stop caring. Like a pothead stops caring about anything. His brain is showered in endorphenes on demand. Because of that, he has no motivation for anything else. I mention the lesser proponents of the basic income idea, as you describe them, because I'm scared senseless from what a bunch of self-entitled, special little snowflakes can do.
- blumkvist 11y agoThere are other ways to achieve the results basic income is trying to achieve. Subsidize their electricity,water,phone. Give free textbooks, subsidize education for their children. Teach them how to manage money. Reduce the government overhead with technology, get more efficient, invest the excess money in the programs. Those are not problems only for starving people. You can do it for people with under certain threshold of median income. People will be free to spend their money on things other than the bare necessities, thus increasing their quality of life.