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From the main reply to my original tweet: "To be clear, I'm arguing against UBI, not a social safety net." And see this from earlier today:https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1180623451683463168 …
>A significant proportion of our population lives in self reinforcing negative feedback loops. Some people are beyond repair, but enough are not to deserve help. Sure, but giving them $1000 isn't going to help with that, in my opinion.
So we agree that some people are broken beyond repair. You say that there are people who are not who just need basic income to get out of a bad feedback loop. If programs like TANF exist, why haven't they already broken out already? There are numerous temp. assistance programs.
I mostly disagree here. Having at points in my life been frightened about how little money I had, having some extra cash to remove that stress would have done wonders for health, happiness, and further economic opportunity
It's an experiment that's worth exploring. The test is to see if that same logic of having a bit of extra money on hand for those that could really use it on practical stuff applies on average to most people. I like your take on selecting a city as controlled experiments
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