tharga8616

No, UBI is unconditional by definition. Crime reduction is indeed one of the outcomes of UBI experiments.

What do you expect after a life of forced labour? Do they stop helping their families on the daily tasks? I think these questions should clarify your thoughts.

Which is why UBI is UNCONDITIONAL.

UBI is UNCONDITIONAL. It can't be used to control, and, being universal, there's no way it can create clientelism as do conditioned aid today.

Please, explain to me how regular cash payments made individually, unconditionally to everyone, can make us more and not less dependent from the market and the state, which are the same thing if you look closely.

So we need something better than UBI but he doesn't have a clue what. Seems like an excuse to say he doesn't like UBI. Sensationalism.

Lol, UBI is precisely money directly onto the people's hands. Haven't you heard of GiveDirecly NGO?

Gladly is only your opinion, while facts from pilots demonstrate that UBI is an activator to do anything, regardless of the activity, paid or non paid.

What if, instead of oil, the revenue came from solar energy? Or gains in automation, or land value taxes, or CO2 caps...

The point I think is that, it doesn't mind where it comes from, but debunks the main argument against, that "people don't work".

It's a matter of time. We automate to work less, not more.

Why nobody ask where is the money going to come from when is for military spending? They always find the money, or just they print it, lol. Because yes, money can be printed. It's a mere abstraction, a measure tool.

Competition. What would then impede people migrating to rural areas, where life is less expensive, to live better? Prices in the city will go down if there is not enough demand.

It's the same principle as in a buckle belt, everyone has one in case is needed, because accidents occur.

Debt and money are invented abstract objects. Pure ideas. The question is, do we have the resources to feed, clothe and house everyone? Yes we do. UBI is just another formal tool to wake you up to this truth. Ephemeralisation. We can each day do more with less, but our irrational economic system is impeding adequate distribution of resources.

And economics nowadays have nothing to do with mathematics, because, where is the rational use of resources to provide for everyone's basic needs?

So, UBI is just a fist step outside of this wasteful system to acknowledge that economy should serve and preserve the whole human species, and not the other way around.

Our aim is to establish the introduction of unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU which ensure every person’s material existence and opportunity to participate in society as part of its economic policy. This aim shall be reached while remaining within the competences conferred to the EU by the Treaties.