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nostrich
1000%, discussion around UBI is always a gauge to how well someone understands basic incentives and market function.

There is literally no world where UBI doesn’t destroy an entire layer of the market incentive structure, leaving the society poorer than what UBI gives.

In other words, if you use UNI to give everyone an apple a day, it will lower the supply of apples in society by 2 apples a day, and literally everyone will be worse off by an apple, and worse they become dependent on the one apple they get from “the system” because apples are now too expensive.

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knockoph · 52w
I have take on this, but it doesn't follow the anarcho capitalist ideal of no state at all, and it also doesn't follow the conservative ideal that everyone is capable of working or needs a functioning family to survive. So for this thought experiment let's assume we live on a Bitcoin standard, a st...
Vinzenz · 51w
what's the difference between a UBI and a negative income tax?