Timeline for Instead of a Universal Basic Income program, why not implement a "Universal Basic Needs" program?
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 10:07 | comment | added | mootmoot | @BenVoigt When you use the highway build by the government, is it communisim? Think about water, electricity, research that funded from public money. Are those basic needs is the sole outcome of the demonised communism ? Are your neighbor rich man capable to fund all infrastructure that help them to make profit? | |
| Mar 16, 2019 at 2:44 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @Joe: The question is about "inequality can be prevented", that is communism. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 19:12 | comment | added | Tom | No, but it is an essential idea of communism. And yes, I was referring to the "basic needs" scheme. UBI doesn't guarantee your needs are met - you still need to manage your money properly. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 14:16 | comment | added | Joe | They're both wrong because the public provision of some goods and services is not a sufficient condition for "communism" | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 13:17 | comment | added | pluckedkiwi | @Geobits that was my interpretation as well - UBI is the market capitalist approach while the "providing basic necessities" is the communist central planning approach. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 13:04 | comment | added | Geobits | @mootmoot I took that to mean that the "basic needs" scheme in the OP is basically communism, not UBI. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 11:16 | comment | added | mootmoot | IMHO, although sound counter-intuitive, UBI is ironically a right-wing / capitalism idea. In fact, it is pretty common sense : payment of money / income is a capitalism idea. So your association with communism is flaw, perhaps perception from conservative? | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 17:15 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |