Taxes model inclusive fitness coarsely. If I earn a dollar, pay $0.15 in federal taxes, $0.15 in state income and sales taxes, and $0.05 in local taxes, retaining $0.65 in consumed/saved value, all citizens are like ~second cousins, fellow state citizens are ~first cousins etc.
But the seller has an incentive to ensure transactions are logged since each transaction compounds future tax share. So only the desperate will accept black market transactions. I don’t like “human life has value” as a design condition though I like the sentiment.
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Without specifying to whom a particular life has value, it becomes an empty aspiration. You could perhaps treat your UBI as an initial and declining subsidy, like a rolling book advance. Badly disabled etc will need to be explicitly adopted by people/institutions who care.
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Sounds heartless I realize, but making them abstract wards of an impersonal welfare system is a cure worse than the disease, since it is the excuse for creating most of the state.
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