Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income, Big Red Car? Huh?
Big Red Car here lobbying for a paint job while talking up the latest experiments in the Universal Basic Income – also known as basic income, basic income guarantee, basic living stipend, or universal demogrant. They are all the same thing.
Advocates of UBI have for years sold the idea as a campaign to “eradicate poverty” while others have championed it as a means of unlocking the creative potential locked deep within all of us.
Those who lean right may consider it as a means to consolidate and eliminate all other welfare programs and thereby make government welfare more efficient.
You can get a discussion on a lot of different implications including poverty, unlocking potential, freedom from wage slavery, reducing crime, a response to technology and automation unemployment, welfare administration, gender equality, the recognition of uncompensated home work by women, and a ton of other ideas.
Please take a second to identify your thoughts on the subject.