How do modern monetary theory followers criticize the universal basic income?

First, let me be clear about something, Modern Monetary Theory (or MMT for short) for those that aren’t familiar (and even for some that are) is a description of how most sovereign money economies actually work. It is a description . It is the moral equivalent of the is – ought distinction (MMT is the is where as UBI might be the ought ).

But just as a person who is consciously aware of how a harmful act might affect others and therefore make value judgement’s (like starving someone is bad) a person who understands MMT as a description of […]

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