> However, if the state either takes money (via tax) or centrally creates money (via inflation) to give a "guaranteed basic income", it is essentially forcing the store owner, truck driver, and rice farmer to work for free
We live in a society where production is large enough to cover all basic needs. That we still have famine, lack of health care and education is a big failure. Especially children - they are innocent, they are not responsible for this unequal situation.
Come next 20 years, robotics and A.I. will replace most of the work force. Then people will have to get BI to survive.
Consider the BI as an dividend from the common technological wealth of humanity. The rich own technology, exploit natural resources more and have financial tools that give them a huge advantage.
They can't hog the resources while other people starve, remain sick and uneducated. We don't need the morality of the industrial workforce of year 1900 any more.
We live in a society where production is large enough to cover all basic needs. That we still have famine, lack of health care and education is a big failure. Especially children - they are innocent, they are not responsible for this unequal situation.
Come next 20 years, robotics and A.I. will replace most of the work force. Then people will have to get BI to survive.
Consider the BI as an dividend from the common technological wealth of humanity. The rich own technology, exploit natural resources more and have financial tools that give them a huge advantage.
They can't hog the resources while other people starve, remain sick and uneducated. We don't need the morality of the industrial workforce of year 1900 any more.