Examining the Case for Universal Basic Income (UBI): A Solution to Capitalism’s Failures? - UBI’s potentials and limitations in a capitalist society — and beyond. Moving towards utopia.
Examining the Case for Universal Basic Income (UBI): A Solution to Capitalism’s Failures? - UBI’s potentials and limitations in a capitalist society — and beyond. Moving towards utopia.
UBI’s potentials and limitations in a capitalist society — and beyond. Moving towards utopia.
UBI’s potentials and limitations in a capitalist society — and beyond. Moving towards utopia.
Shouldn't the goal be to provide universal services first?(i.e. transportation, education, healthcare, and housing). I would like universal income but my fear is that companies could just raise prices.
Idk the discussions I have read about are basicly UBI to replace unemployment benefits, while not cutting stuff like public transport, healthcare, education and housing. The big advantage is basicly that unemployment forces you into work as soon as possible, whereas UBI allows for experiments, including the option of building something up yourself and it takes away a lot from the power hierachy in businesses. If you can just leave your job freely and be fine, then it is much more of an option. A lot of unemployment benefits do not work, if you just quit your job.
On the one hand, it seems more practical, but on the other hand, infrastructure takes FOREVER to put in place and my lifeblood is gushing out of my wallet in the current time.
That's one thing I don't understand. Infrastructure is always too expensive and takes too long but around where I leave some companies just put up 3 building in about a year an half and sold every single unit. I have my doubts about the quality of the apartments but still, they are there. In the mean time not a single public student residence was built or even started (I live near the university).
It could be basically the same thing but those services would be provided by private companies. Which wouldn't be too bad if they were highly regulated, specially in margins and prices. If the income value was regulated and coming from companies by form of taxes anyway and it made sure that if someone needed something but was over that value wouldn't go without. But I don't know why I'm defending it, I agree with you, UBI just feels like a way of just avoiding public services, which is foolish but will probably be needed the way the world is headed. Mostly because providing these services in most places is harder that just giving the money.
If services can be measured in money (budgets) then direct payment is equivalent to services, say the robber baron overlords.