Still, I made an online donation.
A couple of decades too early for the world to be facing the economically and politically shattering consequences of robotics and AI.
But it's good someone sees it coming, and talks it up.
Andrew Yang
Basic Income
It does not occur to me that basic is a reason to eliminate or diminish Social Security.
There is no reason people with private pensions, savings, or other assets should lose them. So why people enrolled in America's public pension plan?
Ditto Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
And the existence of basic is perfectly compatible with that of any public or private insurance scheme or none.
Nor should basic merely equal the official definition of poverty.
It should be sufficient all alone to enable a life better off than that.
And for the fun of it, a lucid proof that the Basic of the Expanse is not what's meant by a Basic Income.
Credit to Bregman for calling this to my attention.
Or maybe Bertrand Russell with his more than a century old defense of "the vagabond's wage", which I read so many years ago.
Considerably more pressing, now, though, given any degree of accuracy in Yang's dystopianism regarding robotics and AI.
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