Perhaps instead if Universal Basic Income, there should be universal basic food, universal basic health care and universal basic housing?
Not because of ideology but because of incentives. People are not intrinsically good or bad, in the long run they behave according to their actual incentives.
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True but why do we have to rule people’s lives with a top-down approach? What has convinced us that top-down incentive design by a select few is preferable to localized decision making?
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A government is an agent that imposes an offset on your local payoff matrix to make your personal Nash equilibrium compatible with the common good. For this to work, all control must be exerted at exactly the right level, including control of the government itself.
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