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by RivieraKid 4613 days ago
> This is kind of thinking is extremely nationalistic: I am entitled to free money because I was born in XYZ.

It's just a technical change in the way we redistribute wealth. Do you think that wealth redistribution is wrong? There are many arguments suggesting that zero wealth redistribution is not the optimum.

> there is no prove that growth comes from redistributing wealth

I'm convinced that wealth redistribution leads to higher aggregate utility. Whether it leads to higher nominal growth, I don't know.

> Instead we propose the exact opposite.

Basic income would make public spending more effective.