Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp...
by ravenstine on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:18PM
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It would probably require either isolationism or a true global government, and neither of those are feasible or desirable. That's undoubtedly why our economies tend to be mixed because basic income in a place like America would require too much sacrifice to sustain in the long term. This is going to become more of a challenging problem as humans become obsolete. Before an actual post-scarcity society, we will need government provided basic income, which is simultaneously a scary thought if we don't solve a bunch of other global problems first.
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