Anything coming to an end has a meaning... it was NOT valid as a theory.
Truth is something that does NOT change and NEVER influenced by moral relativism. Truth is INvariable. So why is an anarcho-capitalist like Hayek in favor of some form of basic income? Read on!
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Universal Basic Income And Programmable Cashless Servitude
Various groups of people have a good reason for preferring cash. Would it be from the mother seeking extra non-taxable income to feed her kids because she doesn’t earn enough or is already on welfare; the small business that doesn’t generate enough revenues to hire legally, to teens who like to earn petty cash to enjoy more financial freedom from their parents, etc… well, there are plenty of reasons as why most would prefer cash over a bank card. In the practical sense that is another story: it will also affect people’s willingness to work at low costs. There is no incentive, for example, if you mow your neighbor’s lawn for say 10 dollars or euros, which become all of a sudden taxable. Or let’s imagine that you run errands for somebody else, what will show on your bank account statement, unless that somebody gave you her or his bank card. And sure, we can bet there will be a possibility to avoid taxation on the 5 dollars or euros received as a donation between pals but everything will have to be reported in your yearly tax return. Many could start having headache in the near future as soon as they realize that their privacy is gone for good when they will have to justify every penny spent. These are just simple scenarios but they give an idea as how quickly the issues could become a lot more complex. We might assume that the 30% of westerners who participated in that survey have most likely a direct deposit as income but it is kind of reasonable to assume that 50% of the population remain opposed to the new model today. Though minds will change when permanent joblessness starts taking hold. Unfortunately, reactions always come way too late and generally cannot reverse the situation without causing even more shock waves to the system.
Let’s now consider the following: Faced with a period of systemic slow economic growth it is not hard to imagine that the state could adopt a version of BI that aims to subsidize low-wage work. Indeed, in places like the United States this is the defacto situation with Walmart workers surviving only by accessing food stamps. A modest BI, of say $10,000 (which would not be enough to empower workers to stay out of the labour market for long), would essentially be a top-up of wages for low-wage employers. It would be a weapon for employers to keep wages low, as they could argue there is no need to pay workers more because of BI. In this scenario why would employers not just pay the minimum wage if there was a BI top up? (see link at the bottom)
That’s the whole truth in one paragraph. Rightfully, we cannot forget about our global financial crisis which has been brewing since the early 2000 and came back to haunt us in 2008, erasing more than $30 trillion globally, and prompted world banks to flood the markets with their quantitative easing ideology. They are still at it. From the tech to the housing bubbles, markets have been awash with digital money in order to prevent the end of the world as we know it. The threat has not gone away. Far to the contrary. Here is what says Hayek. a free-market theorist:
The assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he is unable to provide for himself, appears not only to be wholly legitimate protection against a risk common to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born (55).*
Moreover the two excerpts above speak of ‘income supplement’, they do not even address any full unemployment issues as a consequence of automation and robotics. Socialism and capitalism regard Universal Basic Income almost the same way, but what it does also mean is that the economic theorists perfectly know that the markets are destined to fail and breeding a poor class – and both look at the government to fix this.
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http://www.earthcustodians.net/blog/2017/04/30/programmable-cashless-servitude/