[nthj]

> Before you conclude that I'm an asshole, hear me out. Without basic income, we absolutely need one. But what is a minimum wage? It's a clumsy basic income that's financed by low-end employers. How do they respond? They cut jobs.

I haven't thought through a basic income well enough to render an opinion, but basic arithmetic skills are all you need to realize that minimum wage doesn't help unemployment numbers. We're definitely on the same page there.

[As an aside, my immediate gut-reaction to basic income is that I know a half-dozen people off the top of my head who would gladly just play video games 80 hours a week instead of delivering pizzas, so I am tempted to wonder who would be left to handle lower-end jobs if we had basic income? Not everyone is a workaholic like me.]