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Incentivize completion of higher education & collaborative research projects? Basic income could have qualifications attached to avoid the fears of what oppone
by nosuchthing 11y ago
Incentivize completion of higher education & collaborative research projects?
Basic income could have qualifications attached to avoid the fears of what opponents would claim to be lazy or "leaches" of resources.
Of course figuring out how to balance the stipulations of such qualifications for BI, affordable public education, and public research & development projects against claims of abuse akin to the prison labor [1][2] or bloat of tuition from the near endless supply of student loans will likely be an interesting problem to solve.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
[2] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoners-make-victorias-secret http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoner...
- teddyh 11y agoIf basic income has qualifications, it is no longer basic income. That’s the whole point of basic income.