Re:We're officially launching UBI
by ttoinou on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:23PM
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Only so that their cost calculations don't go crazy and seem sustainable. No one in the UBI side is even remotely interested in deleting previous welfare
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Now you're just making stuff up to sustain your apparent hatred of everyone "in the UBI side".
I think you're working from some wrong assumption who these UBI proponents are, and what their motivation is. Just to give you an idea, Wikipedia lists Elon Musk, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Bill Gross, and Tim Draper, among others. These aren't lazy know-nothings trying to get you to finance their lazy Tuesdays.
I'm more concerned about people in governments, not rich millionaires. The only way it could work would be to create a UBI of 0 at the beginning and publicly say to increase it only every time a social welfare is deleted. I have huge doubts about the doability of this solution.
I don't have any issue with billionaires believing into UBI and sending cash to Kenyans. I don't know their true agenda, but they might gain some political influence / power when they'll try to implement this into western countries (and it will be with our money this time of course, not theirs).