A step forward, towards global domination, is encouraging absolute reliance on the state. Think about how many people barely work, as it is. Toss a grand per month at the bottom feeders, and watch them start partying like they just hit 65 and retired. It could go either way, though. Lots of people work four or five jobs, just to make ends meet while paying for school, or trying to start up their own businesses. Those people could see a lot of relief, from such a policy.
It's really a "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" situation, for me. I'd be okay with doing it as a trial run, in a small selection of sample pools that represent a nation as a whole, to see what the effects would be. You know, before just arbitrarily making it rain on the whole country.
A similar experiment was done in Canada, decades ago. The effects were actually very positive; that being said, it was ah... uh... entirely different demographic of people, whom were given said benefits. Who knows how it would work out, under considerably different circumstances, dealing with radically different variables. Ontario's doing another UBI experiment, which has apparently been going on for a year. We'll see how that works out.
A step forward, towards global domination, is encouraging absolute reliance on the state. Think about how many people *barely* work, as it is. Toss a grand per month at the bottom feeders, and watch them start partying like they just hit 65 and retired. It could go either way, though. Lots of people work four or five jobs, just to make ends meet while paying for school, or trying to start up their own businesses. Those people could see a lot of relief, from such a policy.
It's really a "¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯" situation, for me. I'd be okay with doing it as a trial run, in a small selection of sample pools that represent a nation as a whole, to see what the effects would be. You know, before just arbitrarily making it rain on the whole country.
A similar experiment was done in Canada, [decades ago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome). The effects were actually very positive; that being said, it was ah... uh... *entirely* different demographic of people, whom were given said benefits. Who knows how it would work out, under considerably different circumstances, dealing with radically different variables. Ontario's doing another UBI experiment, [which has apparently been going on for a year](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/24/canada-basic-income-trial-ontario-summer). We'll see how that works out.
A step forward, towards global domination, is encouraging absolute reliance on the state. Think about how many people barely work, as it is. Toss a grand per month at the bottom feeders, and watch them start partying like they just hit 65 and retired. It could go either way, though. Lots of people work four or five jobs, just to make ends meet while paying for school, or trying to start up their own businesses. Those people could see a lot of relief, from such a policy.
It's really a "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" situation, for me. I'd be okay with doing it as a trial run, in a small selection of sample pools that represent a nation as a whole, to see what the effects would be. You know, before just arbitrarily making it rain on the whole country.
A similar experiment was done in Canada, decades ago. The effects were actually very positive; that being said, it was ah... uh... entirely different demographic of people, whom were given said benefits. Who knows how it would work out, under considerably different circumstances, dealing with radically different variables. Ontario's doing another UBI experiment, which has apparently been going on for a year. We'll see how that works out.