Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income?
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday January 24, 2016 @11:10AM
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> If they cancel, there's no problem. If mine is significantly greater than yours, then production goes down, and BI becomes unsustainable.
At which point you're just making the argument for not turning on the Large Hadron Collider. We don't know what would happen. It could create a black hole and destroy the world.
There is only one way to find out. And at least in this case we can go back to the old system if it doesn't work out. Or try a version at half the dollar amount first to see what happens.
>At which point you're just making the argument for not turning on the Large Hadron Collider. We don't know what would happen. It could create a black hole and destroy the world.
That's unfair. There's a plausible argument that this would be harmful, while there's far less plausibility that the LHC would be harmful.
>There is only one way to find out.
Somehow I don't think you mean "more experiments".
If they cancel, there's no problem. If mine is significantly greater than yours, then production goes down, and BI becomes unsustainable.
>The only way to know is to do it and find out. And if the worst case scenario is that companies have to pay some employees more to convince them to do unfun work, is that really the end of days?
If it leads to less production, and then shrinks the economy, then everyone will be worse off.