Basic Income

[JurisDictum]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...-basic-income/

The idea is to replace all welfare with check every single person gets in the mail every month. No strings attached. The ideal in America would be somewhere around 25,000 a year. However, there would be no food stamps, unemployment, and disability.

The first thing most people say against this is that people will stop working...if this is what you were thinking than congratulations on being successfully brain washed by living in hard right capitalist country your whole life. We have known for years that people don't just stop working the second they don't have to (sociology, political science, psychology all have studies demonstrating this). If you get a free $25,000 a year, why not make another 25-30K? Why not pursue your real interests like art or music?

Unfortunately I'm talking to gamers, the one group I'm concerned might actually just sit on their ass collecting the 25k. But at least more money will go to the gaming industry and create better games.

This idea was way more popular than I thought. Even among right-leaning people. The main reason seems to be the big tech companies support it and are even funding experiments. I'm guessing they know something we don't about potential profit margins if everyone was given basic income.