RE: Steem Basic Income - After UBI... the downsides?
My problem with that article is that it is full of already debunked shit and it is just another "labor worshipping socialist" writing. If people are capable of just feeding them selfs, then Marxist communism would have actually come. Also guy claims that all prices just go up. That is BS everything won't fucking just go up like that. Guy is comparing it to some spesifically targeted markets. When you spesifically give some kind of target support, the actual outcome is this: Guy can pay x amount for medicine + goverment says that they will pay extra if that guy pays = persons buying power + goverments extra = price. Guy assumes that labor is productive when in reality it is just consuming (read Hannah Arendt Human Condition). All this labor worshipping has been going on for since Mussolini. To that it does not fix the actual problem with system and is still going to cost lot of taxes I agree with current system. However I have provided a better alternative in my blog post.
Oh yeah! To that claim that people want others to earn their money I answer "If your grand-father had to do labor, you had to do labor and I'm supposed to do labor, non of you got shit done, it's all the same, wich is just a proof how useless labor is.
Interesting perspective. Which points were already debunked?
Point that people may get lazy is most deeply already debunked as each and every test has proven other wice.
Prices will go up just doesn't make any sense. People get much more active, which in turn increases competition and self employment, making achieving of market dominance much harder. Problem with many of those points in that text is that it is just speculation without much of a proof it self. I'm also getting very tired of debunking some of these claims as I live in finland were all the socialists and their unions are talking all that non-sense. I have seen few good articles here on steemit about proof of work for basic-income but I don't have energy to dig them up. Sorry for this half-assed answer.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We are always looking for alternate perspectives to help us improve our thinking.