Nobody’s talking about how Universal Basic Income is going to significantly reduce if not eliminate all forms of criminal activity and drug trafficking.

Hey All,

I wanted to start a discussion. There’s a lot of UBI talk about hard working people losing their jobs to automation. How robots will make everything that we want and desire. But nobody has talked about how UBI will indirectly reduce crime and criminal activity significantly.

This Ted Talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UGC2nLnaes ) given by Steven Levitt made the case that a person working on the bottom levels in a drug organization would be paid less than minimum wage while working at McDonalds. He goes into detail about the logistics, but essentially, the people who are the ones handling the […]

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