Re:Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All
by dragonwriter on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:41PM
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> You don't have to assume that poor people are lazy in order to be worried about how the money will be spent. It takes an equally shaky assumption in order to believe that the money will be spent as intended.
The intent of most UBI supporters is that money be spent according to the perceived needs of the recipients. Centralized control of use is an explicit non-goal.
In fact, one big argument of UBI supporters is that aid recieved even in restricted form will often be redirected in that manner with overhead for the mechanisms of repurposing the benedits, in any case, such that attempts to control how aid is spent are often just expending extra public resources in administrative functions with the net effect of reducing the value of benefits without controlling their use.
The intent of most UBI supporters is that money be spent according to the perceived needs of the recipients. Centralized control of use is an explicit non-goal.
In fact, one big argument of UBI supporters is that aid recieved even in restricted form will often be redirected in that manner with overhead for the mechanisms of repurposing the benedits, in any case, such that attempts to control how aid is spent are often just expending extra public resources in administrative functions with the net effect of reducing the value of benefits without controlling their use.