Reviews for Why Basic Income?

[Doomroar]

Just to let people know, Basic Income is just a safety net, is a reassurance for people to know that they wont go on hungry, sick and un-sheltered, is the same as universal healthcare and free tuition, they exist to assure you a minimum quality of life, but the safety nets still need to be taken care of, they need maintenance, for they don't come free, they have to be sustained by an active work force, that keeps on innovating and moving forward to a better work, just because you get a basic income, doesn't means that you can now detach yourself from society and leave it all in the hands of drones to manage.

For once the moment machines become able to self regulate and improve they will stop being machine and pass to be something else, an artificial organism or an advanced AI, which doesn't really has any duty to maintain us, secondly if management is still done by humans, the those humans have to be regulated by society in order to keep a check on power misuse, and a big part of that process comes from being an active member of society, being that as an artist, scientist, engineer, social worker, chef, nurse, teacher, etc.

Total automation and complete BI may make the concept of work as a form to acquire sustenance obsolete, but work will still serve as a form of regulating the system.

[NDSpencer]

Well done video, but don't agree with the message. Giving people cash with no strings attached might work for a time, but if a person can survive without labor then a person will naturally gravitate towards.

adamanimates responds:

It may be counter-intuitive, especially since we've been told all our lives that people are naturally lazy and you shouldn't give out money for nothing. But the evidence actually points in the other direction. In the studies mentioned, people tended to use the basic income to further invest in their businesses or start new ones, thus increasing their incomes from work. In the study in Manitoba, Canada, the only people that cut back their working hours were new mothers and high school kids.

[Cyberdevil]

The idea of a basic income really doesn't seem so bad. I was just thinking the other day, that if society evolves to the point where most of our jobs are automated, then why would we need to rely on jobs at all? If people play video games all day that could be fine, if machines manage our duties for us. Grow our crops. Refine our resources. Transport. Service. The prospect of such an AI-oriented society seems scary too, but in a way that'd let us focus on everything we want to focus on, and let the rest take care of itself. Either it'd be a potential WALL-E-like nightmare, or a world where people truly strive to bring new ideas to live, and evolve, and make the world a better place. Purposeless or with place for passion... it's an interesting ideal.

Anyway: an informative, well-animated video that beckons to thought. Nice work.

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[WeezerWave]

This is a great, informative video with a lovely animation style. Well done!

[ChrisMckiernan]

Basic Income sounds nice all around.
If it was enacted in the United States (where I live), do you think it would work?

The United States is already in heavy debt (as the whole world knows) and i feel like the money would have to come from somewhere.
Taxing the rich would be difficult, they are already fucked up the U.S. economy, and they'd shoot down any law or program that would cost them any pocket change.

While middle class, people in their mid to late twenties (like me), have bachelor degrees working multiple retail jobs with high school kids and still having trouble paying bills and feeding themselves.

When I go on job interviews for full time work, even though I'm a graduate, they refuse to hire me because I lack work related experience.

I'd be thankful to hear your take or opinion on this.

Anyway,
The argument your trying to make is clear and concise and full of convincing facts and real-life situations.
This video is a good length without being too long.

The character designs are simple but are appropriate.

adamanimates responds:

It might surprise you to learn that the US came very close to passing a basic income in the 60s. Nixon was actually strongly in favor of eliminating poverty until he encountered political resistance within his administration.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-income-welfare

If that had passed, other countries would have followed and the world would be very different today.

So it's definitely viable and affordable. The question is entirely about politics.