What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? (2014) (opens in new tab)

(vox.com)

6 pointsfomoz9y ago4 comments

4 comments

This article was originally posted in 2014, the author Scott Santens pretends to take an objective look at UBI, but in reality Scott is "Writer and advocate of basic income for all" according to his website http://www.scottsantens.com/

fomozOP9y ago

My bad, corrected the title.

I don't see anything objective about that article, it looks like an opinion piece.

TrevorJ9y ago

I don't think his patreon supporters would view their contributions as altruistic donations. They expect some output.

Qwertystop9y ago

Yeah, bit odd to equate "successful Patreon" with "has a basic income." Unless he got them all on-board ("I want to run an experiment with basic income with the next three months of Patreon," etcetera), he doesn't have the option of stopping his writing and having the money keep coming for very long.

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