And I say this as someone who could have used it multiple times in the last few years, though admittedly not a good prototypical case (2/2).
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- As a grad student/freelancer, the timing of invoices & stipends means any causal link between work & compensation has vanished.
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...major red flag for control engineer like me. Stable provisioning of positive good with no feedback = implausible.
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- Well, that's a bit asocial, now, isn't it? Prestige, popularity, respect, glory.
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those are all cultural feedback variables on consumption side, not economic feedback variables on production side
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- Bollocks. And the production/consumption binary is a product of the second half of the twentieth century.
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gotta finish the loop all the way so it shows up in GDP or some descendant thereof
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yup. imagination failing me here. Can't see a way UBI can be made truly workable for more than a couple of biz cycles.
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- Doesn't it strike you as weird that we use 'consumption', a reference to eating, to talk about everything, inc. non-rivalrous goods?


