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I don't think you can usefully equate 'UBI' to a single outcome of UBI. One of the goals of UBI, as I interpret it, is to reduce the cost of living closer to zero. And that's the literal cost of living - not the macroeconomist's use of the term. That phrase, once you contemplate it, is a ludicrous reflection of how our society has gone wrong. Why should it cost to live? (You can consider the answer in terms of > 11ky…
> Why should it cost to live? Because that's how life works. With sufficient energy input into a system, the system can sustain complexity. Sun -> single-celled life -> plants -> animals. The food chain is an economy of energy. Money is a proxy for many different kinds of energy. It will never be cost-free to live, not for single-celled life, not for us. A Universal Basic Income absent substantial other changes in ou…
First, no UBI proponents are suggesting that it be
a) combined with a bureaucratic dictatorship, and
b) implemented absent significant concurrent social and financial changes.
Your phrasing makes me think you're based in the USA, and so I can understand some of the societal norms that might have led you to believe we can't have a better quality of life, a better society, simply because amoeba have to hunt their prey to survive.
We -- intelligent life forms with breathtakingly advanced technologies (compared to what we would need to just live) -- can do much better.