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.
The question to which degree individuals are able to plan ahead and shape society in ways in which nobody dies in the streets is an empirical one, not a moral one.
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This is implicitly moral. You believe that people dying in the streets is bad, and that's a moral judgment. I do agree with you, by the way, that this is bad. Empirical methods could then be used to mitigate that problem. Utility maximization is an ethical belief.
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In any case, happy to discuss with you today
@Plinz . Even with my localized leanings I am still intrigued by the idea of UBI. It may be what we need.
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