> One way to make basic income work politically is make it conditional upon providing something other than the actual market value of said something, at least initially.
That's called a "behaviorally conditioned social welfare program", and along with means-tested social welfare programs, its exactly the efficiency and administrative problem that unconditional basic income sets out to solve. That's not making basic income work politically, that's the exact thing that basic income is proposed in opposition to.
That's called a "behaviorally conditioned social welfare program", and along with means-tested social welfare programs, its exactly the efficiency and administrative problem that unconditional basic income sets out to solve. That's not making basic income work politically, that's the exact thing that basic income is proposed in opposition to.