UBIRevolutions

Argument

A basic income will change the economy that much that we can not predict what is going to happen. As such, it is a revolution with unpredictable results: if too many people go into unemployment, how will we fix this?

Counterarguments

• A basic income does not necessarily change that much as a lot of people are also happy in what they do and will not change (immediately).
• In our social system these days, there is a lot that works quite similar to a basic income:
  • Money you get for your children (kindergeld) is like a basic income for the child.
  • Pensions have a fixed part
• A basic income has more interesting parameters to play with than the current blocked situation
  • You can change the height of the basic income itself. It is advisable however to put a minimum, which can be used as an extra guarantee for a loan with the bank.
  • You can change the incentive for working. (lower the taxes for a certain category of incomes our lowering the taxes when you work more than a certain amount)