UBI implemented properly, like Friedman's Negative Income Tax, is a right wing solution to left wing concerns. It enables welfare for those who need it, without creating poverty traps of 80% to … (View Post)

UBI and Negative Income Tax are the same concept. We have tax either way. The net payment getting tapered away by tax, is the same either way - and the difference between this (either name) and what … (View Post)

AI doesn't cause mass unemployment, it just frees people up not to do menial labour that can be automated and can do other jobs instead. As every other bit of automation for centuries has done. (View Post)

Good news that it seems the defeated candidate has already conceded defeat rather than continuing to claim that he has won. Terrible that its something that is now noteworthy, post-Trump, it should b… (View Post)

You wouldn't give everyone £12k though, that's what you don't seem to understand. That's a gross figure based on nobody earning a penny but it replaces the tax allowance and forms… (View Post)