What's your opinion of universal basic income?

[catgeorge]

Hmmmm ... This idea has been around for a long time and not sure about it. The national dividend comes in the form of tax returns for those that work. Every functioning economy requires high end money circulation but think the end result will be prices rising and people becoming lazy.

[щрбл]

My opinion on universal basic income is that communists are ball-sucking apes. If it makes any sense.

[MissMischief]

It's an answer to a problem that does not exist yet. The idea is that in the next 50 years we will see massive, endemic and constant loss of jobs due to automation. The only way of dealing with this will be to have a Base payment that will enable the majority of the populace to live. The issue is we can't be sure this situation will ever emerge - predictions of mass unemployment caused by modernisation has been around since the steam engine.

[щрбл]

It's an answer to a problem that does not exist yet. The idea is that in the next 50 years we will see massive, endemic and constant loss of jobs due to automation. The only way of dealing with this will be to have a Base payment that will enable the majority of the populace to live. The issue is we can't be sure this situation will ever emerge - predictions of mass unemployment caused by modernisation has been around since the steam engine.

Nein, it is not the only way. Actually, tones of jobs are getting more and more useless. What are the percentages of students having graduated in the faculty of human studies who actually work in their field of expertise? Probably super very low. Anyway, a few things that have been proposed by obnoxious neo-nazis:
1. Improve practical learning. Make children compete. Restore teachers' authority in schools. Teach more math, etc.
2. Cut funding on barely useful fields in the universities, for example sociology, human studies and the like; and make them elitist.
3. Allow adults to have obtain new qualifications and generally give the people the means to improve themselves.