Defenses of a universal basic income (UBI) often focus on the efficiency gains of replacing leaky, ad hoc social safety nets with the simpler UBI; the labor market lubrication that goes with workers knowing they’ll have an income if they choose to change jobs or start their own business; and how the program complements the “gig economy” by assuring that freelancers have a stable income along with their other less dependable income sources.
I don’t deny any of these, but my own thinking about a UBI takes a darker form. We need a UBI to ward off evil.
The “ Liberalism […]
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