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The Importance of a Universal Basic Income
I don't know how I feel about anything approaching a universal basic income because the dystopian possibilities of it are not trivial. There is no doubt that a minimum wage set at the proper level will actually push innovation precisely because if you cannot pay people you need other way more productive to do things when I was in the Italian army there was still a mandatory conscription and we were cheaper than the elevator so the army would not pay for the elevator as I had free labor to bring up. If we're going to have a fundamental discussion about welfare reform and universal basic income then let's have that discussion to the extent our country and our politicians are capable of actually having it. Let's enact a plan and