https://thefutureofemployment.com/universal-basic-income-a-g...
Innovators are people who can afford to take risks. UBI can enlarge the pool of those people to include those who aren't born into wealth.
I agree having safety nets means more people can contribute to innovation. But it’ll still be hard to survive the brutality of startups. As a society we shouldn’t reward those who make unhealthy choices to “win”. That’s still exclusionary IMO. But I don’t know how you can defend against that.
Thanks, I'll pass.
Of course UBI is effective. We have hundreds of studies to look at to determine this, not just two.
The NYT article was shit too. It's one thing to say that $333/mo of UBI to a family of 2 or more didn't appear to have brain development impacts that were measurable within the first few years of life. It's another to say UBI isn't effective.
We know that a guaranteed monthly income floor has all kinds of positive impacts especially on kids, and especially if kids are prevented from living in poverty for their entire childhood.
Read a 30-year study like this article covers.
And never forget that a key component of UBI is universality. It's one thing to study the impact on an individual. It's another to test the impact on an entire community.
In the Dauphin pilot where an entire town got it, crime went down 15%, violent crime went down 37%, and hospitalization rates went down 9%. You aren't going to find stuff like that in any pilot that isn't a saturation pilot testing universality.
The reason these experiments are being tried is that our social order is breaking down. Even if you're able-bodied, well educated, and willing to work, there are too few jobs that pay a living wage. And many people were unfortunately born to the wrong set of parents, so they never got good health care or education. What do we do with these people? Leave them out in the street to die?
Painting in broad strokes, of course. I'm sure somebody somewhere is working harder than ever, but it is not the norm. Long walks in the park and meeting with friends doesn't contribute to the tax base.