I think this model is pretty useful for combating pernicious industries.
You work for a hospital’s billing department? How bout the government match your salary to not do that.
You mine coal? Salary for life. Find other work, or enjoy payed unemployment – whatever. You still get the cash either way.
Just giving money to a bitcoin company is pretty dumb though. Just fuckin’ outlaw them.
yeah I guess if you’re gonna go that way the key is to kill the company and pay the workers. and even then there should be some kind of dividing line between formerly necessary industries and shit people come up with just to be harmful.
Honestly though, the bureaucracy to do this on a mass scale would be better spent just making those programs universal
Yeah, on it’s own it would be pretty lackluster. Combine it with a universal healthcare system, and you sidestep a lot of semi-valid criticisms, like “What, everyone in insurance is just unemployed now?” Do it right and you can use the existing bureaucracy. Medicare’s accounts payable is now paying the workers instead of the company, sort of thing.
I’m hesitant about full on universal income though. In the US’s present economy, it just seems like a giveaway to landlords and middlemen. Maybe after some tighter market controls are implemented…
