Moving Forward on Basic Income

Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by jannotti on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:56PM (#11807787)

That's certainly an issue, but your demand stifles any effort to learn more by saying that you have to study "generational effects" (what, maybe a 50 year study before you can learn anything). Which will just be followed up by the equally valid criticism that you can only study this if everyone has BI (to see if it's the relative effect that matters).

Reasonable seeming concerns, but you have to start somewhere to learn anything.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by xienze on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:03PM (#11807860)

> That's certainly an issue, but your demand stifles any effort to learn more by saying that you have to study "generational effects" (what, maybe a 50 year study before you can learn anything).

It's less costly than rushing into BI. It's one of those social programs that once introduced can NEVER be taken away.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by marlag on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:21PM (#11808105)

"NEVER"

You might think that, because no country has implemented BI, then considered it a failed project, then scraped that system for something better, yet. But one of the countries on this planet might be the first to try that. It's one of those "nobody done it yet thus it can't be done by anyone" ideas that reality so often find is false.

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