Perhaps instead if Universal Basic Income, there should be universal basic food, universal basic health care and universal basic housing?
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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After 40 years of ruling itself, the working class in my own country (Eastern Germany) voted to be exploited by the bourgeoisie again, because the results were better: higher productivity, better living conditions, shorter working hours. What do you make of that?
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The theoretical notion that Gov could create improved payoffs to increase net societal utility is nice, but how often has that been brutally wrong? The power needed to redesign incentives in such a thorough manner is the *same* power that can wreak havoc by poor rulers.
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