rhetoric: counter-argument from the political left, that highlights the flaws and potential inequities for distributing via blanket model like UBI

inference: This is a great steelman addition to my argument against UBI -- this actually shows that both conservatives (fearing inflation) and progressives (fearing inequity) recognize the flaws of UBI. I can use this in my essay to help dismiss it as a viable solution for the displaced generalists.

rhetoric: this is an appeal to macro econ theory (logos), citing 'expert analysts' that warn of the mathematical consequences of extra 'unearned' capital (without being tied to production) in the market.

inference: this is how I feel about the concept -- receiving money without earning it could lead to major issues down the road, especially if a large majority of the people decide to stop working in jobs that help to add value to society. Printing $$$ w/o corresponding human production (because the machine is doing the work) is a trap that dangerously increases the risk if price inflation (hyperinflation) and income stagnation, because it removes the motivation to continue adding value, and increases the incentive to essentially do nothing ('eat, drink, be merry'). This is one of the core arguments for my thesis, that humans are abdicating their agency, or at least at a very real danger of it, which leads to an infinite loop of "Workslop" ("Work slop" Medici)

rhetoric: summary of the counter-argument from the conservative side, using cause and effect reasoning/logic (that UBI causes loss of incentive)

inference: this is a major risk, and since these payments would be delivered to entire large economy, this could potentially cause the entire structure to collapse, because the productive class can very easily and quickly shrink, with a massive bill that the taxpayers (productive class) would need to cover.

rhetoric: authors/editors use an objective definition of Universal Basic Income

inference: I have seen this a lot over the last few years. Andrew Yang mentioned it for his presidential campaigns, and gave the opinion a lot of credibility. This helps to explain or establish the concept in my paper, which I can present as a false solution that harms everyone involved, including the taxpayers. It is proposed as the "solution" to AI disrupting the workplace today!

Yes, a dream that forgets to factor in that a world without workers would (currently) also mean a world without consumers.

Also, possible missing word.

Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp

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等著領全民基本收入UBI，趕快推！ UBI, here I come!

• for: KLM cap, air travel cap, flight cap, degrowth
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  • “In a few months’ time, this government will not be accountable for the severe consequences that may follow from the Schiphol decision, particularly with respect to relations with the Netherlands’ trading partners, and lost jobs and prosperity at home,”
  • This comment ONLY refers to things economic, and NOTHING to climate boiling, which air travel is a significant contributor to.'
  • If they saw it coming from years ago, why did they not adapt? It is their failure to adapt itself that places themselves in a self-created position of vulnerability
  • During a transition as unprecedented as this, the governments of the world must invoke policy that gives protection to workers in industries such as the airline industry and all industries downstream of it so that they can survive the transition as such jobs vanish or morph.
    • Indeed, this is one of the major tenets of degrowth advocates. A Universal Basic Income and job retraining to sustainable jobs is the responsible thing to do to protect from job losses.

• for:UBI, universal basic income
• for: UBI, universal basic income, futures
• The physical labor required to maintain life’s essential conditions against the forces of entropy.
• The intellectual labor required to constantly test and advance the individual and collective maps of our ever-evolving territory.

• The spiritual labor required to continuously renew our sense of individual and collective connection to all that is.

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  • two of these are articulating the entanglement of the individual and collective.

!- claim : examples of a good enough world * Universal Basic Income (UBI) * Blockchain * Offer network

!- in other words : enoughness * Universal Basic Income (UBI)

UBI

This is a good enough reason for introducing a Universal Basic Income. Starting/joining new businesses require a degree of entrepreneurship that is impossible if there is any risk of falling into deprivation and poverty during the process.

makes sense... the best way out of poverty isn't education... it's money.

So true.

Absolutely. The argument is always "how will creators get paid" and if they don't get paid, "why would they create?" but this completely misses the point. Creators don't create to get paid, they create to create. Payment is a nice side effect of creation (sometimes). It would be really neat to see a UBI situation where creators are freed up to do what drives them instead of what they need to do to pay the bills.

Nettle, D., Johnson, E., Johnson, M., & Saxe, R. (2020). Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income? [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/csr3u

Huge clue re: precarity's effect. Also a bit of a portent in the possible effect of a Universal Basic Income. Which has to now become a new tag I use...

Universal Basic Income and Health Care will benefit faculty, staff and students. President Nixon considered it in 1969, but didn't follow through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-income-welfare/

Andrew Yang, digital social currency "backed by government", short clip

https://samharris.org/podcasts/130-universal-basic-income/

Andrew Yang, digital social currency "backed by government", long clip

https://samharris.org/podcasts/130-universal-basic-income/

I don't think this happened?