First of all, there is no one idea of guaranteed basic income. There are various models which disagree regarding implementation details and lead to completely different outcomes (How high exactly? Does it include children? How about the different types of foreigners? What do we do with all the pension funds people paid into for decades?).
But many ideas are based on the idea that all forms of welfare spending are abolished and replaced with a fixed monthly payment which covers the cost of living a decent human life (with different interpretations of "decent").
That means instead of our very differentiated and […]
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