Re:Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient
by imtringued on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:35AM
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I don't see how it is an anti elite invention. Deflation scales with your networth. The bigger your networth the bigger the income from deflation. The only difference is that the system is new and the elites haven't established themselves yet but it is starting to get old. Give it another 10 years and it will be just as bad as everything else.
Inflation scales with your networth too but it doesn't reward you. You'll have to find an income source to cover the loss. Most inflation protected income streams rely on employing humans.
If you were to pay out a fixed UBI to all people and finance it with inflation then basically people with above average deposits would see the value of their bank account decrease and approach average wealth and people with below average deposits would see the value of their bank account increase and approach average wealth as well.
Assuming inflation = low unemployment holds then incomes would rise vs wealth which would be a reasonable approximation of the theoretical UBI I proposed above.
Inflation scales with your networth too but it doesn't reward you. You'll have to find an income source to cover the loss. Most inflation protected income streams rely on employing humans.
If you were to pay out a fixed UBI to all people and finance it with inflation then basically people with above average deposits would see the value of their bank account decrease and approach average wealth and people with below average deposits would see the value of their bank account increase and approach average wealth as well.
Assuming inflation = low unemployment holds then incomes would rise vs wealth which would be a reasonable approximation of the theoretical UBI I proposed above.