Comment on The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in - Vox
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 11 months agoWhat do you mean self-contained?
Comment on The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in - Vox
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 11 months agoWhat do you mean self-contained?
MHLoppy2@aussie.zone 11 months ago
In this experiment, external funding is paying for the handouts.
In a self-contained system, the same system/community providing the handouts would be generating the revenue for them (e.g., via taxation). Think of existing social welfare where “the system” generates the revenue that pays for the welfare programs.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 11 months ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
bouh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s irrelevant to the question here. Here the question is how would people live their lives depending on the variation of the UBI. They still pay taxes. It’s no different than government money.
The question you are asking is where the money will come from. Or how will the government finance this. It’s not a difficult question to solve, except for liberals who hate taxes more than anything else on earth.