My problem with UBI is that nobody has convinced me that there's a reasonable way to pay for it. I mean, personally, I hold that taxation is theft, so anything that starts with 'taxes' as the answer is automatically flawed. BUT, even if you allow for taxation, it isn't clear how trying to do this via taxation will avoid simply creating a house of cards that can't stand.<p>That is, if you raise, say, corporate taxes to pay for UBI, then what's to stop those corporations from simply raising prices to maintain their margins? This will just push the costs down to the same people you're trying to support with the UBI in the first place.<p>Don't get me wrong... I like the <i>idea</i> of UBI. Hey, free money, sign me up. But I have serious doubts about every implementation model I've seen suggested yet (where the proponents have even bothered offering any details, as opposed to just hand-waving way the question of how to fund the UBI).
Someone at Davos commissioned this illustration of a "replaced worker" losing his job to a robot in a game of musical chairs...<p><a href="https://assets.weforum.org/editor/tWV3bYiI6y5mfQRRFmy-Zz_sfdhMU9O3HT8J1frg8sY.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://assets.weforum.org/editor/tWV3bYiI6y5mfQRRFmy-Zz_sfd...</a>
Seems like a human version of Universe 25.<p><a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/03/the-amazing-rise-and-fall-of-a-rodent-utopia/" rel="nofollow">http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/03/the-amazing-rise-and-f...</a>
It is a good idea, in my opinion.<p>- It will foster the arts in ways we can not even imagine.<p>- If you believe in a personal project you will commit to it no matter what and you wont risk bankrupcy.<p>- No more parents carrying with their sons until a good job comes.<p>And many, many more...