Philosopher Karl Widerquist argues that Universal Basic Income is needed to rescue our social contract. Lockean views of the social contract are naive. Private property can only be justified if we have some unconditional sharing of the Earth’s privatised resources.

r/philosophy – Philosopher Karl Widerquist argues that Universal Basic Income is needed to rescue our social contract. Lockean views of the social contract are naive. Private property can only be justified if we have some unconditional sharing of the Earth’s privatised resources. Abstract

Karl Widerquist argues that unconditional income guarantees (like UBI) are needed to rescue our social contract and create a genuinely free society. He makes this argument using similar principles as John Locke (an analysis of private property, a focus on the value of freedom) but with a very different conclusion. Contra Locke, Widerquist argues that there […]

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