Interesting take on basic income. I find the subject thorny, but I like the presentation here. So long as government stays away from it and it is voluntary, I'm all ears.
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Interesting take on basic income. I find the subject thorny, but I like the presentation here. So long as government stays away from it and it is voluntary, I'm all ears.
It is a very thorny issue.....and there is great debate about it.
Until there are millions in first world nations who are put out of work without prospects of getting another job. Wait until decent paying jobs start to disappear. We are already seeing areas of medicine that are being penetrated, truckers, accounting, financial market analysts, and the legal environment is being automated.
People's answer will be retraining....the challenge with this is that a doctor or lawyer isnt going to be retrained to create apps on the STEEM blockchain.
It will be interesting how quickly all this unfolds and what the beliefs of people become...especially when one of their loved ones who wants to work will not be able to find it.
I wonder how so many seem to not need to work now. Not all of the reason is state funded welfare. Every where I look, businesses can't find workers. There is some sort of shift happening.
Very good question @flyinghigher.
I do know a number of people who are living on disability because of various ailments, some real, some imagined. Either way, it is not much of a living since it is meager pay ($600-$700 in some cases).
The question I have is can businesses not find workers or is it they cant find workers for what they are offering to pay.
We are living in an age where wages have been held down while corporate profits exploded.
In Europe, we got a problem with healthcare in few countries. Mostly, because doctors just look where is bigger wage, not where they are actually more needed. So they go from southern and eastern Europe into countries that pay the highest salary - those are mostly baltic and north-western countries . So, in east and south of Europe...the lines of people, needing professional medical help, is getting bigger. And looks like no social medical program (every european country has it- meaning...you pay small fee, a check every month so you can get their help and most of the medicine without additional bill to pay). And what is happening, is that you have to book and wait for weeks of sometimes even months... I think this is all the result of greed.