PHIL 28 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Welfare Trap
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Andrew flowers: what would happen if we just gave. Swiss government: anti basic income: potential effect to decrease people"s willingness to work, fiscal costs. Interest in basic income is spreading across the world: started in. Switzerland; spread to finland, netherlands, canada, us, and france. Pro basic income: more people live with chronic economic insecurity, cushion the blow as automation replaces human jobs, want more options, to let people create art, get rid of bullshit jobs". Con basic income: challenges notions of social safety net, relationship between work and income, and how to adapt to technological change, too expensive. Encourage people to stop working, tank country"s economy: distraction from raising minimum wage, guaranteeing full employment. Overall, not much data on how it would work or what would happen. Problem nowadays: eligibility for most social assistance based on income; recipients lose their benefits as they earn more income, even if they"re a dollar over the limit.
