When a country is bold enough to introduce a UBI, society will undergo some radical changes in how we think about governments and money. With a UBI, everybody gets the same amount of money from… Read More »UBI and Everyone Pays (versus user pays)
(drunk, doesn’t invalidate…) What if instead of employers dictating wages, we turned it upside down: people bid for jobs, how low they were lowing to offer for a job. But otherwise, a “shitty” job would… Read More »Auction Jobs
Note – this is not a suggested alternative to anything else offered to people who lose their jobs. This is in addition. Being retrenched, or being made redundant, is possibly going to become a major… Read More »UBI and the Retrenched
Most modern economies have Payroll Tax, where every time a business pays an employee, a additional percentage of that is paid as tax to the government. It might be a lot or a little. It… Read More »Robot Tax vs Payroll Tax
This one idea provides many solutions. Just like we don’t question the idea of profiting from owning a house, we grumble about, but don’t question, the absurdity of paying almost as much for childcare as… Read More »Free Child Care
The idea of a UBI (Universal Basic Income) has been around for centuries, and championed by numerous powerful and well-respected people, here are just two examples: Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if… Read More »UBI and Very Small Businesses
A country is a political state or nation or its territory. But what is in a country? That question does not appear anywhere on the in Internet, presumably because it is so self-evident. I believe… Read More »What is in a Country? A case for UBI
In every advanced economy, the indigenous people, and the immigrants, are never the highest ranked for any scale to be proud of. This is proof of inequality due to past situations. Reparation is a difficult… Read More »A Racist Reason for UBI