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RE: Hawaii is Now the 1st State to Pass Legislation to Study Full Basic Income
As long as it is just a study then I am not against it. However, the whole idea of UBI is to get paid without having to do any work and linking it to production of any sort just defeats its objective. After all we have government welfare and subsides so why do we need to introduce UBI which is basically welfare/subsidies by another name. We only need to make the existing system we have to work better.
Well if the working group produces something that could lead to more funding and a start of a pilot program. With that said, I can also agree with what you are saying but to a certain extent, I'm not sure if there is a way to make the existing system work better with the rise of automated jobs.
I don't totally agree with it but Alaska has somewhat of a working system that is a form of basic income so maybe UBI can be improved.