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A guaranteed income for every American
Replacing the welfare state with an annual
grant is the best way to cope with a radically changing U.S. jobs
market—and to revitalize America’s civic culture
When people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a
universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes
something like this: “But people will just use it to live off the rest
of us!” “People will waste their lives!” Or, as they would have put it
in a bygone age, a guaranteed income will foster idleness and vice. I
see it differently. I think that a UBI is our only hope to deal with a
coming labor market unlike any in human history and that it represents
our best hope to revitalize American civil society.
When people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes something like this: "But people will just use it to live off the rest of us!" "People will waste their lives!" Or, as they would have put it in a bygone age, a guaranteed income will foster idleness and vice.
The great free-market economist Milton Friedman originated the idea of a guaranteed income just after World War II. An experiment using a bastardized version of his "Negative income tax" was tried in the 1970s, with disappointing results.
Finland is planning a pilot project for a UBI next year, and Switzerland is voting this weekend on a referendum to install a UBI. The UBI has brought together odd bedfellows.
ReplyDeleteWhen people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes something like this: "But people will just use it to live off the rest of us!" "People will waste their lives!" Or, as they would have put it in a bygone age, a guaranteed income will foster idleness and vice.
The great free-market economist Milton Friedman originated the idea of a guaranteed income just after World War II. An experiment using a bastardized version of his "Negative income tax" was tried in the 1970s, with disappointing results.
Finland is planning a pilot project for a UBI next year, and Switzerland is voting this weekend on a referendum to install a UBI. The UBI has brought together odd bedfellows.