Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
by munk-a on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:48PM
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I think that conclusion on it's disincentivation to work would be of value. Currently western society at large thinks that social assistance is a good thing, we have targeted programs like housing assistance, medicaid (or free non-pharma care up here in Canada) and food stamps.
The debate on whether social assistance is a good or bad idea in general will happen orthogonally to the debate on what the best manner to provide that assistance is^1.
1) The camp that believes that social assistance is entirely evil is justified in saying that investing effort into maximizing efficiency of a bad thing is a waste of resources - that's a logical position - but I think that it's more reasonable to research our options. Anything more I could type here would just go into my personal opinions.
The debate on whether social assistance is a good or bad idea in general will happen orthogonally to the debate on what the best manner to provide that assistance is^1.
1) The camp that believes that social assistance is entirely evil is justified in saying that investing effort into maximizing efficiency of a bad thing is a waste of resources - that's a logical position - but I think that it's more reasonable to research our options. Anything more I could type here would just go into my personal opinions.