Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:35PM
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I didn't hold it up as an ideal. I held up the middle class experience there as an example of what happens when labor isn't scarce.
You seem to think I'm endorsing having very few goods and services. I'm not. On the contrary, I oppose policies like BI which will reduce goods and services available.
India is filled with a ton of misery. It's the only country in the world where I saw dead people just lying in the gutter. The Mumbai slum was one of the worst places I've ever been and you want to hold that up as some sort of ideal? That people should just live down to that level instead of striving for better? If it wasn't for the Indian government welfare programs, that slum would be filled with rotting corpses.