I can honestly not oversee what would happen if universal basic income would be implemented. I really do think that there would be many people who would then feel free to pursue their dreams. Some of who would probably indeed give us brilliant new ideas.
Having the need to work a job you hate, just to provide for your family really crushes a spirit and any hope of anything genious coming out of such a person is basically gone.
There is also the argument that a lot of people would take that money and do nothing meaningful with it. They would stay at home all day and smoke weed on the couch.
This is also what would probably happen. I think it would be a mix. But then again, that mix already exists. There are already people living off of government pay (atleast here in the Netherlands) and basically all they do is sit on their couch and drink beer. Or they are a pain in the ass to the neighbourhood. I don't think there would necessarily be more of those people with basic income.
In order for one to consume without production, another must produce without consumption. UBI is just buying political power by promising to rob your neighbors on your behalf.
Yes, that is a good point. Though I guess with UBI, the whole idea would be that this other producing individual would be a computer or a robot of some sort. Atleast that's the only way I can understand this being an option to consider.
Unless you do it without Govt interference. Bots will produce but they will not consume.
Bots require construction costs, energy sources, and maintenance along with human decisions on production and human design. AI can't replace any of that in the foreseeable future.
Great points. Perhaps there is no system that would completely eliminate human nature?! ;)
Exactly! I don't think there is any way of making a complete society productive. Atleast not if you're into the whole free will thing... which I think most people are kind of big on.