Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income
by pikachu_is_cool on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:26PM
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In practice we have no idea if this will work. It has never been done before.
With that Apple example: For all we know, the industry could be in a much better position if it were not for the iPod/iPhone.
The stuff Apple brought with the iPod/iPhone (DRM and the App Store model) have arguably set the software industry back.
And an argument in favor of Apple: stuff like the RPi/VR wouldn't have been economically feasible since there was no pass production of ARM processors / high-density screens.
Point is, we don't know.
There's no way of telling if BI works without actually doing it. And that's what the point of this study is.
With that Apple example: For all we know, the industry could be in a much better position if it were not for the iPod/iPhone. The stuff Apple brought with the iPod/iPhone (DRM and the App Store model) have arguably set the software industry back. And an argument in favor of Apple: stuff like the RPi/VR wouldn't have been economically feasible since there was no pass production of ARM processors / high-density screens.
Point is, we don't know.
There's no way of telling if BI works without actually doing it. And that's what the point of this study is.