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by pegas1 3845 days ago
The minimal income shall be given in exchange for voting rights. Pick one or the other.
2 comments

Why not just auction off voting rights?
I'm not sure you're right but also not sure that you're wrong.

We don't know how many people are going to rely on basic income as main mode of income and why.

I'm sure he's wrong with that particular phrasing.

If a real problem does arise with a non-working majority perpetually voting to increase their BI, a more flexible answer would be to make the vote conditional on having paid a certain amount of tax, either in that year or over their lifetime to date or some combination of the two. But let's not roll back the clock a few decades on universal suffrage until we're absolutely sure we need to.

EDIT TO ADD: a core principle behind BI is that paid employment is not the only socially valuable form of activity. I believe that. Taking away the vote from people who aren't making a contribution in $$$ form would fly in the face of it.