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RE: Steem Basic Income - After UBI... the downsides?
I read the article and agree in many ways. Usually, from my experience, the thinkers behind the basic income ideas are highly educated and engaged. On the other hand, I have met many who a) do not value anything given free and b) are not interested in doing anything to get themselves into a better state. Others who were either not interested or not capable to fulfill simple tasks.
I think a meaningful purpose in life is important.
Anyway, a big subject and the way you set up your program people have to engage first before they get benefits. So, a bit different from automatic delivery.
Yes, I read the two articles and the same day @revo asked about his 'inactive' status, which had just tipped back to active automatically. As I explained to him what happened, it occurred to me that technically that structure makes this closer to a basic jobs program than a basic income.
Was it not Christ who is quoted as saying "the poor we have with us always" ?
Followed by the UN mantra of giving people fishing lines so they can fish for themselves
Deciding and fulfilling who gets 'free lunches' is always the biggest problem of 'aid'.
There's also a limit to how much photography, short story writing, political rants, steemit flag vendettas and prescient cryptocurrency technical analysis Steemit users can digest.
Personally I think it's already moved into the surreal to the point of becoming a timewasting bore.
But for somebody with their ass hanging out in Aceh needing to supplement their already precarious income just to survive, Steemit is a real lifeline which must not be let fail