Could we have a universal basic income, economically speaking? Yes. Are we going to? Probably not. Why? We could have had it at many points in history and we never did. Very often a lot of people are not strictly needed for the production process. Examples:
Communism shares a lot in common with UBI no? And maybe the reason why we never had it is that, without IT, it's not practical.
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It has a few things in common. But UBI doesn't deny markets, private property, doesn't advocate central planning, doesn't promote full or even medium equality, so i'd say it's fairly different.
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Dejure communism is like that but defacto isn't it kind of just UBI with economic activity going black market?
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