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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by rtkwe on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:50AM (#11814748)
> Or having kids is somehow constrained now through other hoops, like a "procreation license."

Possibly, though better educated and better off people tend to have fewer children so there are other ways to limit population beyond strict China or Ender's Game style limits.

Or maybe asteroid mining will finally break and crash the whole materials economy making everything but space, food, and water extremely cheap.

Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by alttab on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:43PM (#11819785)
My point is this: universal BI requires some level of population control (to prevent poverty and misery), and eventually some level of reproductive planning.

Universal BI leads to universal resource control.

Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by rtkwe on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:00AM (#11822479)
Really we'll need either population control or (more likely and) to drastically limit consumption (or the impact of it maybe more closed cycle recycling) with or without BI.