Foremost, it would kill meaningless and useless jobs. At the very least, enterprises would have a much harder time justifying them.<p>Low-paid menial jobs are either useless, easily automatizable, or not so menial. In the later case, why are they low-paid?<p>It should also be noted that monetarily we are already paying for it, without having the benefit of it, by means of Quantitative Easings. Instead of making it a Universal Dividend, we just pay a few banksters amongst the 0.0001%.<p>The rational thing to do, is to perform reasonned quantitative easings, based on the lifespan of the human beings, distributing a Universal Dividend. For the lifespan in an economic area like Europe, this would give about 530 euro/month/human being.<p>For more information, have a look at:
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( translation of the mathematical annex: <a href="https://github.com/informatimago/LatexTRM/blob/master/LateXTRM-en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/informatimago/LatexTRM/blob/master/LateXT...</a> )