But a true
UBI system has never been seriously considered in America (save for the Alaska model).
It could be because of our insistence on the American Dream and the ideal of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps or the aversion many people have to the support systems we already have in place or the tax implications
a UBI system would have (more on that later), but the closest we've gotten is Richard Nixon's guaranteed annual income proposal in the 1970s, which was still a means - tested program, and which was passed in the House of Representatives but killed in the Senate.
- That looks identical to a post scarcity
UBI system to me.
I responded explaining a system I think might work, but I'm not in any way a professional economist, so I'm interested to know what problems there would be with my proposed
UBI system:
Not exact matches
As with any other peoples» money, you run them out eventually: your most productive people will leave the economy, and you have to tax the next most productive group progressively more until you end up with a
system of 100 %
UBI recipients.
We got some hands - on time with it during a recent Ubisoft event, and it points to a game that could fare much better on this new
system than
Ubi's last Nintendo console - launching shooter...
You'd think that the rampant public condemnation would have been enough to make
Ubi shelve the programme for good... but it looks like the
system is set to make a comeback.
Or with the tech leaks of this
system it could be what
ubi is think of to compete with Pokemon go.
Ubisoft has confirmed RUSE will not make use of
Ubi's own DRM
system, opting for Steamworks instead.
There's also the argument that a
UBI is better for capitalism, which is a strong selling point for a
system that's seen as socialist or, worse, communist.
It says a
UBI «is a profoundly democratic and egalitarian concept that promotes both security and genuinely effective freedom» and that it would «overcome many of the problems with the existing and increasingly complex, punitive and unpopular
system of social security, which in multiple ways has become a weak tool for social protection but a strong tool for waste and the humiliation of those on the very lowest incomes.»