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blackbootz  ·  2108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Andrew Yang on Joe Rogan Experience — I think this guy could win

I’m just nowhere near convinced that UBI is workable. There’s hardly any conclusive research, let alone findings that unambiguously point towards the good results UBI proponents claim. It’s just been endless articles backed by thought experiments. And if thought experiments are sufficient as proof of UBI’s plausibility, then why don’t thought experiments about the disincentives to work just as sufficiently torpedo UBI?

Society and institutions are the result of evolved processes of trial and error. This seems like a reckless hard restart.

I say that as someone very interested in reforming the shit out of the current system, and open to gathering more evidence for UBI.





OftenBen  ·  2107 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So we hear all the time about the lack of evidence supporting UBI.

I would be interested to know what alternative economic model has a mountain of hard data to support its adoption.

user-inactivated  ·  2107 days ago  ·  link  ·  

earned income tax credit

which we already have

and it works

but if you're advocating for ubi and not for an expansion of the eitc, you are a confused human