[jonasvp]

This has been espoused a long time ago by German economist/trader Silvio Gesell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell

His main work is about reducing the possibility to extract "rents" from society by closing loopholes in our current economic system:

1. Money is "better" than everything else so those holding money can extract surplus value by lending it out. This was later also found out by Keynes and others. Keynes' solution: inflation. Gesell's solution: imposing carrying costs on cash.

2. Land is required by everybody yet impossible to increase. Solution: the goverment is owner of all land yet leases it out long-term by auction. All income is distributed among all mothers, since the price of land is direct consequence of the number of children/people in a country. Now you would distribute it among all citizens and call it "basic income".

His ideas are still completely valid and deserve a wider audience.

[YCode]

> All income is distributed among all mothers, since the price of land is direct consequence of the number of children/people in a country.

Isn't an inherent flaw in this that it encourages people to have as many children as possible?

I'm under the impression that at a point when your population is established you want something like a 1.2 birth rate, or just a little more than enough to cover your unexpected deaths.

[jonasvp]

Well, that's a tricky argument since at what point is a population "established"?

I concur, however, since I'd prefer it to be distributed among all residents, whether born in that country or not. But that's another discussion entirely.

[kubelsmieci]

> Isn't an inherent flaw in this that it encourages people to have as many children as possible?

Not when this income is lower than cost of raising child.