Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income

Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by dragonwriter on Thursday July 11, 2013 @06:45PM (#6029778)

> I am in the UK now and this country decided to go for universal income we would have to either close the borders or convince at least the whole of EU to do the same at the same time.

That's something of an issue of the EU being a union that is very much like a traditional state, limiting -- by design -- the ability of the subordinate elements to effectively manage certain kinds of policy on their own. That's not an issue with BI, that's an issue with the UK as the unit of analysis in considering BI.

You'd have the same problem considering BI in California, for instance.

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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by dllthomas on Friday July 12, 2013 @02:34PM (#6034258)

The UK could surely apply BI only to their citizens. California would have more trouble, given the 14th Amendment, though might be able to do something similar to what we do with schools, requiring that you live there a certain amount of time before you start receiving BI.

This is assuming that the influx of population actually would be a bad thing, though, which I'm not sure of one way or the other - I see some arguments on both sides that hold at least a little water.

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