One overlooked potential of unconditional basic income is its ability to chill the Culture War. It could form the basis of a new economics that offers the best of Left & Right - equality of opportunity *and* individual freedom - thereby rendering the political spectrum obsolete.
It would need to be means-tested, which would require a sprawling bureaucracy that would quickly become corrupt and inefficient. The beauty of a UBI is that it would require very little administration, which is one reason why the Right love it.
3:57 PM - 30 Nov 2017
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