You can believe whatever you want, of course. (Reply #13)

In the discussion thread: Yang 2020. Let's put humanity first. It's time for Universal Basic Income. [View all]

Fri May 4, 2018, 01:58 PM

PETRUS (3,678 posts)

13. You can believe whatever you want, of course.

But I'd be curious to know why you think a UBI is qualitatively (not quantitatively) different from other public spending or transfer programs.

And given that economics is a field with significant disagreements among professionals, and that consensus opinions are often proven wrong by actual events, I'm wondering who you think is correct. Even (maybe especially) Ph.D. economists admit that their economic models are incomplete simplifications of reality.

And lastly, if you're interested in a teaching professional's opinion/analysis on a topic, there are better uses of the Internet than asking anonymous posters on a political discussion board to weigh in.

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Yang 2020. Let's put humanity first. It's time for Universal Basic Income. [View all]	yallerdawg	May 2018	OP
I have these questions about basic income.	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#1
"Rules of economics?"	yallerdawg	May 2018	#2
Thanks for the reply but that is not an answer	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#3
When a robot creates something of value...	yallerdawg	May 2018	#4
Henry Ford paid $5 a day because the jobs were so bad workers	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#7
Your world view may be realistic - in a capitalist system, of course.	yallerdawg	May 2018	#8
Good questions.	PETRUS	May 2018	#9
To me universal basic income does not	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#10
?	PETRUS	May 2018	#11
I would like to hear from an economist who teaches, to give me the model with a	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#12
You can believe whatever you want, of course.	PETRUS	May 2018	#13
I think I told you twice now. The money does not come from any type of productive effort on the	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#14
Take your fingers out of your ears.	PETRUS	May 2018	#15
Productive effort? Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?	fleabiscuit	May 2018	#17
很好!	geardaddy	May 2018	#5
We have to recognize our own obsolesence!	yallerdawg	May 2018	#6
I agree with your reasoning, and have one concern.	Music908	May 2018	#16
How about we start by taxing ALL forms of compensation as regular income?	fleabiscuit	May 2018	#18

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