Difference between revisions of "Free income/objections"

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Objection: It costs too much.
- Reality: Actually, we spend more on other solutions already.
  - Myths/people need incentives to work
  - 2014/05/27/Leaving Homeless Person On The Streets: $31,065. Giving Them Housing: $10,051.
Objection: If you give people money, they will spend it unwisely.
Objection: I don't want my tax money going to pay for someone else's lifestyle.
- Reality: Unless you object to all taxation of any kind, this devolves into "FI is harmful to society."
Objection: Giving people free money is bad for society.
- Reality: There's no evidence that it is harmful, and considerable evidence that it is beneficial (at least in our modern jobsolescent society). You'll have to be more specific.
Objection: Giving people free money makes them lazy.
- Reality: Studies have shown that only mechanical tasks are even somewhat motivated by financial incentives; with intellectual/creative tasks, financial incentive actually serves as a damper.
- Implied Objection: nobody would work if they weren't forced to by the need to earn income.
  - Reality: The majority of the US does at least some work without pay -- in the form of running a household, volunteering, community organizing, unpaid software development, etc.

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 ** '''Reality:''' Unless you object to all taxation of any kind, this devolves into "FI is harmful to society."
 * '''Objection''': Giving people free money is bad for society.
-** '''Reality:''' There's no evidence that it is harmful, and considerable evidence that it is beneficial (at least in our modern [[jobsolescent]] society. You'll have to be more specific.
+** '''Reality:''' There's no evidence that it is harmful, and considerable evidence that it is beneficial (at least in our modern [[jobsolescent]] society). You'll have to be more specific.
 * '''Objection''': Giving people free money makes them lazy.
 ** '''Reality:''' Studies have shown that only mechanical tasks are even somewhat motivated by financial incentives; with intellectual/creative tasks, financial incentive actually serves as a damper.
 ** '''Implied Objection''': nobody would work if they weren't forced to by the need to earn income.
 *** '''Reality:''' The majority of the US does at least some work without pay -- in the form of running a household, volunteering, community organizing, unpaid software development, etc.