I took a brief look at this paper and found it seriously disappointing. I hope 
someone with more heart to read through a caricature of UBI as presented here, 
will make a more thorough criticism.  
UBI is presented as a way to 'escape work', and as anti productivity, 'post 
work dreamers', following a remark by Marx that it was a misfortune to be a 
productive worker.  I cannot claim to have read all the literature, but this 
interpretation of the motivation for UBI does not ring true to me. The 
possibility for people to be free to choose how they spend their time, in what 
way they want to contribute to social wellbeing, as a result of UBI, does not 
seem to enter this analysis.

Finally what I understood  positively was that it should be administered by us 
rather than the state, good point, and can connect with social projects needed 
to make the transition to a society that works for all. Both of these points 
could have been made without attempting to debunk UBI, and it's having many 
supporters of different colours (as if that is a criticism)
Anna

On 21 Nov 2017, at 19:07, Theodoros Karyotis <[email protected]> wrote:

> A critique of the plan for a Basic Income and its conception of the state, 
> money, wage, and labour:
>
> http://www.bath.ac.uk/cds/publications/bdp55.pdf
>
>
>
> autonomias.net
> twitter.com/TebeoTeo
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> ...buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es 
> infierno, y hacer que dure, y dejarle espacio..
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