Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income

Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by cpursley on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:02AM (#6026425)

Please keep the do-gooder central planning away from my bank account. Thanks.

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:24AM (#6026602)

Says the founder who has a business based off of a major component of US central planning (housing).

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by cpursley on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:29AM (#6026648)

What? The two are mutually exclusive.

I know it's hard to fathom, but people purchased real estate, and will continue to do so with, or without, central planning.

Central planning (expanding the monetary supply and forcing banks to lend) has little effect on my business.

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by dllthomas on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:54PM (#6027286)

Did you mean "orthogonal" in place of "mutually exclusive"? If they were in fact mutually exclusive then any central planning should have a dramatic (and negative) effect on your business.

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by sanderjd on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:24PM (#6027046)

I also hate this idea, but I agree that the long term trend is for society to support very few jobs. Do you disagree that this is the trend? If not, do you have any better ideas for what to do about it?

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by ihateloggingin on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:22AM (#6037386)

This is the opposite of central planning. It lets everyone decide what to do with the money themselves.

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