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:
Dejure communism is like that but defacto isn't it kind of just UBI with economic activity going black market?
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A little bit. But 1) the black market is capped (you can't be big). With UBI you can still be the CEO of Google. 2) In communism actual confiscations, forced evictions were fairly common. 3) Govt directly spent much of the GDP (e.g. on military) instead of subsidising people.
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A little bit off topic but a very interesting thing i'm researching. In Germany the gov. redistributes ~45% of the GDP, but the federal budget is only ~10%. The rest goes to states (10%), municipalities (10%), individuals through social security (15%).
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