Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by dragonwriter on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:39AM
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> What are the causes of poverty?
Value capture by capitalists. Perverse incentives of means-tested welfare programs. Making choices that are suboptimal from an expected value perspective because they are better from a risk perspective when you can't afford to take risks.
> Prevent them.
UBI prevents or reduces all of those causes.
> What are the barriers to mobility in the job market?
People not having the resources to take time off their current job to retrain, either via formal training program or taking temporary lower-paid work in a different field, among others.
Value capture by capitalists. Perverse incentives of means-tested welfare programs. Making choices that are suboptimal from an expected value perspective because they are better from a risk perspective when you can't afford to take risks.
> Prevent them.
UBI prevents or reduces all of those causes.
> What are the barriers to mobility in the job market?
People not having the resources to take time off their current job to retrain, either via formal training program or taking temporary lower-paid work in a different field, among others.
> Alleviate them.
UBI does.