Douglas Rushkoff’s sobering view of Universal Basic Income

I was interested because of the headline, the excerpt was a let-down. Utter nonsense.

Being an economist, I was intrigued by the UBI long ago. It actually exists in some countries – for children. A subsidy for raising children with a fixed income per child is a UBI for the child.

So I looked up the poverty line of my country, and found there’s a different poverty line for single adults, adult couples, single parent with 1 child, 2, 3 etc, couples with 1 child, 2, 3 etc (after a certain quantity every other child adds the same amount).I took the […]

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