UBI only works if the same is given to everyone, rich and poor. Otherwise it is still welfare. UBI is just that - universal - it is an all or nothing affair.
The goal of UBI is not the creation of more jobs. The goal of UBI is the alleviation of poverty. Poverty is socially destabilizing, and revolutionary in the extreme case. Currently we use the welfare state to provide this same service - and the welfare state is inefficient.
With a full UBI system in place you can then change the employment laws to allow employers to hire and fire at will. You can eliminate the minimum wage. You can fully legalize volunteer employment and allow the full return of apprenticeship. You can also eliminate about 90% of the welfare state programs entirely. You basically remove the main political argument of left wing of the political spectrum, (the idea that capitalism fails to provides for all.)
We now live in the era of continuous technological change - jobs are created and destroyed at the fastest rate possible. The social benefit system needs to be redesigned to accommodate this new reality in order to maximize the available mobility of labor. Labor mobility is critical to economic performance, and never more so than today.
The welfare state, and the labor laws that go with it, were designed for an economic system that no longer exists.
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CrustyBeaver52 ago
UBI only works if the same is given to everyone, rich and poor. Otherwise it is still welfare. UBI is just that - universal - it is an all or nothing affair.
The goal of UBI is not the creation of more jobs. The goal of UBI is the alleviation of poverty. Poverty is socially destabilizing, and revolutionary in the extreme case. Currently we use the welfare state to provide this same service - and the welfare state is inefficient.
With a full UBI system in place you can then change the employment laws to allow employers to hire and fire at will. You can eliminate the minimum wage. You can fully legalize volunteer employment and allow the full return of apprenticeship. You can also eliminate about 90% of the welfare state programs entirely. You basically remove the main political argument of left wing of the political spectrum, (the idea that capitalism fails to provides for all.)
We now live in the era of continuous technological change - jobs are created and destroyed at the fastest rate possible. The social benefit system needs to be redesigned to accommodate this new reality in order to maximize the available mobility of labor. Labor mobility is critical to economic performance, and never more so than today.
The welfare state, and the labor laws that go with it, were designed for an economic system that no longer exists.