Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia
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Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia
universal basic income, or UBI.
Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
On the face of it, this makes the numbers come close to acceptable. It also means that UBI schemes essentially take money out of the pot currently reserved for the needy and disabled, and distribute it to able-bodied people plus the needy and disabled. Such a scheme has the potential to have good effects: by eradicating welfare traps that keep... See more
Simon Sarris • After Universal Basic Income, the Flood
From my perspective, I can understand why the Silicon Valley elite have become so enamored with the idea of a UBI: it is a simple, technical solution to an enormous and complex social problem of their own making. But adopting a UBI would constitute a major change in our social contract, one that we should think through very carefully and most
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