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

What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? (2014)(vox.com)

6 points by fomoz 9 years ago | 4 comments

ZoeZoeBee 9 years ago |

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/

fomoz 9 years ago | |

My bad, corrected the title.

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

TrevorJ 9 years ago |

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

Qwertystop 9 years 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.