Perhaps instead if Universal Basic Income, there should be universal basic food, universal basic health care and universal basic housing?
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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Conversely, all the parts of human civilization that work are the result of functional governance. Tribal communities don't scale beyond a few hundred individuals, even if they can exist in niches.
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