Roadmap to a Government-Independent Basic Income (UBI) Digital Currency
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IntroductionUniversal basic income (UBI) is enough an alien concept that it still registers as “unthinkable” for most of the world, far outside the window of discourse. Although it dates as far back as the 1500s, its tacit implausibility (“free money?”) has stymied critical examination over the past few centuries. Because the political machine is notoriously slow to integrate well-founded policies which are nonetheless poorly understood in the public sphere, a number of independent efforts have emerged attempting to bring these ideas to fruition.But if UBI itself is so radical, how could it possibly succeed without government assistance? The first hurdle is to realize that a permanent guaranteed income is perfectly feasible from the standpoint of traditional #economics. Bringing the idea (...)
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