neoliberalism-nightly said: man argumate u can do better than this
Do I have to, though? Seems like without basic income you have to bite at least some of these bullets:
1. Existing welfare systems deliver better outcomes more efficiently.
2. Some people will starve and that’s okay.
3. Automation won’t inevitably increase unemployment.
4. People will never rebel if forced into menial labour to survive.
5. Society without basic income will involve less suffering over all.
That just seems unlikely to me.
What happens when people squander the basic income and then need additional assistance to avoid starving (or “starving” in the sense of not having an acceptable first-world standard of living)?
I don’t know enough about the history of it to say whether it was justified or not, by that sort of consideration is the main reason why welfare has historically shifted from cash grants to in-kind aid.
Pay it on a daily basis.
It can be put on a card system actually, for efficiency. Then they don’t even need to have a check or mailing address, visit an office, or so on.
Regardless, this will need to be tested by experiment.