A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage

Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by gpm on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:27PM (#11424663)

Retirees presumably yes, since differentiating 'retired' vs 'unemployed' involves the sort of expensive invasive work that UBI looks to obsolete.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by jerf on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:36PM (#11424751)

Part of the reason I'm not a UBI proponent is that I have absolutely no confidence in the ability of the real world to "obsolete" that much work. Literally the next bill passed after UBI would be a bill to limit and/or extend it somehow to some favored or disfavored interest.

We got to where we are not because of arcane technical procedures, we got to where we are because of the humans in the government. Pass UBI with the same humans in the same government and the same result will occur at speed.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by undersuit on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @06:55PM (#11435256)

>Literally the next bill passed after UBI would be a bill to limit and/or extend it somehow to some favored or disfavored interest.

It's universal. You can't extend it, it's universal. You could limit it, but then it's obviously not universal.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but by definition anything not universal is not Universal Basic Income.

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