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by tharga8616 1976 days ago
And economics nowadays have nothing to do with mathematics, because, where is the rational use of resources to provide for everyone's basic needs?

So, UBI is just a fist step outside of this wasteful system to acknowledge that economy should serve and preserve the whole human species, and not the other way around.

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You can't rationally predict the outcome of complex systems anymore than you can rationally predict the weather or the stock market.

In general you need to run something called "tests" to verify certain hypothesis. And even then you may not get a definitive answer given the complexity of the situation.

This is not "math" this is the scientific method.

>So, UBI is just a fist step outside of this wasteful system to acknowledge that economy should serve and preserve the whole human species, and not the other way around.

Communism was an alternative solution to UBI. In fact if you squint enough communism is UBI taken to the extreme, where all forms of income become UBI. Communism in theory works, but in practice there is no working example of a communist utopia in existence today.

So you want to turn all of society into some UBI utopia because it fits your political ideology? How about let's not be stupid and run some experiments first.