Disconnection between employment and the provision of resources will wreck UBI.
When you read a comment like this in connection to #UBI, you probably are reading the words with a particular agenda and might be inspired by Bayard Rustin.
As you listen to Rustin, you might question some of his initial assumptions. We have seen that "Negroes" have achieved equal rights. It wasn't entirely due to "marching in the streets" but that was part of it. All the people who he said could not share in the "cake" did so. It didn't require making a different cake just make more of it.
In my interpretation where Rustin lies on the Socio-Economic landscape is towards Utopianism. He isn't wrong. It is when his opinion is taken to the extreme "A total disconnect must be established between employment and the provision of resources as the only alternative" does it become problematic. I sit around for an hour and write a short piece like this. Should I receive the same pay as a brain surgeon or should he get paid the same as me? This disconnection is unrealistic and is unrelated to a Universal Basic Income (#UBI).
Imagine that in seven days, I wake up with zero dollars. At the end of the day, I have 0.05 dollars.
In contrast, talented @ozenozge earns 0.65 dollars for her submission: CITYSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY/ART.
Should I get paid the same as her? The way that a #UBI policy works has nothing to do with what the person does during the day. It just changes what the person starts the day with. I can create a basic income for myself on steem via rewards on my delegation.
If everyone adopted a similar strategy or if the Witnesses elected to a mechanism to give their two cents worth to everyone on the system ... that would be a #UBI.
The following are beneficiaries for their ongoing support:
@tarpan
@zero-to-infinity
@steem.skillshare
@digital.mine
@steemchiller
@devann
@enveng
@ozenozge