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Does Basic Income Assume a Can Opener?
he's my fave pro-UBI theorist. from goodreads:
David Calnitsky continues the (fascinating) debate on basic income that he began in Vol 1 No 3 ("Debating Basic Income") and which received an insightful response from Alex Gourevitch and Lucas Stanczyk in Vol 1 No 4. I thought this latest contribution was really excellent, and even though I'm personally not a huge fan of UBI myself, I found Calnitsky's arguments defending UBI's fairly convincing. The article talks about the role of policy in building power (both as an end goal to mobilise around, and as a baseline with a ratchet effect once in place) and suggests how capital flight and other possible consequences could be countered (essentially: we could use capital flight as an excuse to nationalise, which is admirable in its audacity even if it may not be practical). I wish he delved more into techniques for countering the inflationary effects of UBI, but maybe he did that in his first article and I don't remember anymore, idk.
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Does Basic Income Assume a Can Opener?
he's my fave pro-UBI theorist. from goodreads:
0 / 6David Calnitsky continues the (fascinating) debate on basic income that he began in Vol 1 No 3 ("Debating Basic Income") and which received an insightful response from Alex Gourevitch and Lucas Stanczyk in Vol 1 No 4. I thought this latest contribution was really excellent, and even though I'm personally not a huge fan of UBI myself, I found Calnitsky's arguments defending UBI's fairly convincing. The article talks about the role of policy in building power (both as an end goal to mobilise around, and as a baseline with a ratchet effect once in place) and suggests how capital flight and other possible consequences could be countered (essentially: we could use capital flight as an excuse to nationalise, which is admirable in its audacity even if it may not be practical). I wish he delved more into techniques for countering the inflationary effects of UBI, but maybe he did that in his first article and I don't remember anymore, idk.