Mandatory Participation Series Contents All or most of the arguments in part 8 apply to women as much as they do to men. Women make up about half of the workforce, and women are disproportionately subject to harassment, low-wages, poor […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents Underlying the work ethic, reciprocity, and exploitation objections are two questionable presumptions: that UBI is somehow bad for workers and that there is a recognizable dichotomy between “workers” and “UBI recipients.” My book, Universal Basic Income Essential […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents The exploitation objection to UBI, which goes hand-in-hand with the reciprocity objection, is essentially the following. Most of the goods people might buy with UBI require labor. Therefore, people who receive UBI benefit from the labor […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents The above discussion answers one of the most common arguments against UBI, the allegation that it provides something for nothing in violation of a principle of reciprocity under which everybody who gets something gives something back. […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents The “work ethic” means different things in different contexts. Probably the most relevant definition of it is the belief that everyone who can must work for what they get, but no such principle can be used […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents People who are introduced to UBI often ask, “What about incentives?” UBI helps fix one of the biggest incentive problems in the market today: the lack of incentive for employers to pay living wages to their […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents Virtually any new idea meets with fallacious, knee-jerk criticisms. UBI is no exception. Some of the most common such criticisms of UBI portray it as being against paid work, property, or the market economy. Paid work […]
The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously is my first statement of the “Indepentarian” theory of property, called “Justice as the Pursuit of Accord.” It argues the natural-rights-based arguments for unequal private property have failed to establish that […]
Professor Karl WiderquistKarl@Widerquist.com Fridays, 3:15 pm to 5:30 or so, April 29 to June 3, 2022any anytime online The University of Freiburg This seminar is based largley on my book, A Critical Discussion of Basic Income Experiments. It attended mostly […]
Although some mainstream and some functional finance/MMT economists agree that a livable level of UBI is sustainable, some economists in both camps argue that it is not. (See my previous post for definitions of mainstream, functional finance, and MMT.) […]