Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
by dragonwriter on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:36PM
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> People who advocate for a universal basic income say it will be a way to pull people out of poverty. Skeptics think a universal basic income will act as a disincentive for people to work.
IME, advocates tend to say it is a better way of alleviating the symptoms of poverty than means-tested benefit programs and that, compared to means tested programs, it provides greater ability to take advantage of (and less disincentives to) other existing means of lifting oneself out of poverty in the developed world.
And skeptics and advocates both agree that it will reduce economic compulsion to work, but advocates argue that the reduction to structural disincentives and barriers to development and outside income involved in both means-tested aid programs and the trap that is necesssry-but-dead-end work would outweigh that in the conditions prevailing in the developed world.
While it may be certainly interesting to study the different models of exogenous aid provided in the study here, I don't think it's particularly relevant, other than tangentially, to the core arguments regarding UBI because the design is wrong and the environment is wrong, and should not be viewed as a study of UBI so much as a study of charity models which might have some incidental relevance in discussions of UBI.
IME, advocates tend to say it is a better way of alleviating the symptoms of poverty than means-tested benefit programs and that, compared to means tested programs, it provides greater ability to take advantage of (and less disincentives to) other existing means of lifting oneself out of poverty in the developed world.
And skeptics and advocates both agree that it will reduce economic compulsion to work, but advocates argue that the reduction to structural disincentives and barriers to development and outside income involved in both means-tested aid programs and the trap that is necesssry-but-dead-end work would outweigh that in the conditions prevailing in the developed world.
While it may be certainly interesting to study the different models of exogenous aid provided in the study here, I don't think it's particularly relevant, other than tangentially, to the core arguments regarding UBI because the design is wrong and the environment is wrong, and should not be viewed as a study of UBI so much as a study of charity models which might have some incidental relevance in discussions of UBI.