Oddbean new post about login | logout And you're taking to get what in return? If governments want to UBI, I can't stop them, but as long as I can opt-out thats cool with me. Everyone who believes in it can support it and see how far they get
Exactly. This is more of a thought experiment to me rather than a discussion on the implementation details. Say they could pay for it... would it be net positive or negative?
If they can pay for it and those that are paying are willing to accept that cost even if its a net negative, everyone participating was willingly went along with it so I don't see the issue there But that's not likley how it would work, it would be inflation and taxes that fund it and many would disagree. Even if you are saving in Bitcoin, you're still going to part of it in one way or another, unless you leave that country
Wouldn’t you just buy bitcoin with it? 🤷♂️
I would yes, and once prices adjust upward for this new currency supply we just go back to the UBI amount not covering your living standards
if someone has to suffer for others then you are literally promoting the idea of throwing out the driver of a train after tying one person to one side and two people to the other side of a fork and then demanding someone decide who is more valuable if you profit from crime you are an accomplice, and there is no more to it than that criminals use ignorant and innocent bystanders all the time as shields to hide and deflect from their wrongdoing aside from the clean hands doctrine (you cannot claim innocence to prosecute if you also have profited) there is also the problem of character - another old principle of law, sacrifice is the measure of credibility if you take away people's incentives to strive for better by handing them freebies you will wind up with a crowd of fat, lazy people with their hands out and the only way to enable sloth is to steal from those who work
You are still missing the point and trying to argue about implementation details. It's ok, I'm going back to the code editor now.
not interested in following the doings of people who have no spine or moral fibre either anyway
