| > Does anyone have any examples on what the total cost would be per person. There are many different proposals which tend to roughly share long-term goals but differ in short-term approaches. > I've mostly seen 12-18k per person but that obviously wouldn't fly in San Francisco or Boston. What do you mean, "wouldn't fly"? UBI aims to ultimately replace most [0] other social safety net programs with a single cash-payment system which doesn't get reduced when people find outside income and isn't constrained in what you can spend it on, so that people that have basic support but can supplement with work without being penalized. Most proponents do not see it as guaranteeing the ability to live comfortably on UBI alone in the most expensive places in the country to live. > I recently drove through Kansas and stopped in Quinter, population 955. The per capita income is $15,588 so around $15m for just income not including health insurance/etc. How do we go about justifying basic income for a city this size whose primary export is corn. I'm not sure what you think the cities current per capita income has to do with either the cost or justification of UBI. [0] Or possibly all, details will vary between different versions of the idea. |