UBI is just spitting on Malthus's grave.
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Replying to @Outsideness @HbdNrx
... Realize there's going to be a huge "feature not bug" constituency on this. Gnon will punish it.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Consider the Alaska permanent fund payments--these seem to be working out ok. Promoting income for everyone sufficient to live on is a mistake, but I think it's quite reasonable to have some dividend for citizenship. Just make sure it doesn't make the dysgenics worse.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @Outsideness
And of course if you start replacing other welfare policies with it, you might actually end up with a substantially more efficient system.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @Outsideness
So, only stakeholders( producers/capital investors) should be receiving dividends? Isn't this a fundamental principle of nrx?
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Replying to @helios_unbound @Outsideness
We could convert today's voting rights into ownership shares of the government. Even if we don't, at least people might have a more obvious incentive against dilution if they see that their payment declines as more people come in.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @helios_unbound
Far superior idea, as long as the shares are tradable.
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So what, once you sell your government share, you are stateless? Where would you go? How would that work? If you make citizenship opt-in, you have to give an opportunity to opt out.
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Competitive low-end sovereignty services market for that 'problem'. In my case, cash out useless UK citizenship. Buy Bitcoin. See what Laos is charging for an off-the-shelf sovereignty option.
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Let's assume you sell your citizenship and lose the money afterwards, for medical treatment after an accident for example. In that case, you would be stateless. The only way to forego this would be by only allowing citizenship to be sold once you bought a second one
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