Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
That may be true. Lots of legit economists (like my fave Milton Friedman) have supported UBI in some sense at some point.


I do find myself, however, scratching my head at how it could help. Here's why:
I'm not sure how any of what you said after that was relevant. UBI should help, imo, in 2 major ways:

- Cutting down on bureaucracy. Running a system that interviews, monitors, processes, makes decisions etc for millions of people takes an obscene amount of work. If everyone just got a fixed sum every month, none of that would be needed.
- Incentivizing labor. Not familiar with the details of your system, but here up north a lot of people are much happier just collecting unemployment benefits, since if you can only get a shitty job, you won't be making much more than from the benefits, without working. Doing even part-time work will cut heavily into your received benefits, making finding a minimum wage job pointless. With a fixed income that's unaffected by your income and that covers some basic necessities but no luxuries, every bit of extra work would be extra in your pocket, as it should be.

These are the reasons we're trying this out: https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...l-basic-income