interesting vision. basic income is a liberal version of the basic public interest services : basic education, transport, food, culture... it can be criticized because nothing prevent you to use basic income to gamble on horses or drink, instead of educating your kids or building your competence... it can be appreciated, because individual can decide to invest more in one domain than another, and people who don't use the public system infrastructure, keep their cash to pay for better service elsewhere.
that is politic vision of the society. for a french man, you look so strange in US. and i suppose we look so strange to you. discussion about grid, autonomy, infrastructure, is really revealing that strong difference between crowded kingdom and pioneer "desertic" self-managed pioneer countries. roland benabou have good article on that http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers.html eg http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/beliefs%20qje%201%20web.pdf and many other you can undestand why, despite the fact that today the fairness is quite the same in US and europe, our vision are so different... even our religion, electricity, transportation, cities, government, are different and this is connected to the big differences of belief... US people cannot imagine how violent for us is the globalization that impose your pioneer culture to our kingdom culture, and maybe is it the same for US people... 2011/12/15 Jouni Valkonen <jounivalko...@gmail.com> > economy
