Opposed: Dependency

Robert E. Wright () and Aleksandra Przegalińska ()
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Robert E. Wright: American Institute for Economic Research
Aleksandra Przegalińska: Kozminski University

Chapter Chapter 12 in Debating Universal Basic Income, 2022, pp 95-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract UBI will make people dependent on government and possibly the devil. And dependency is childish and hence a miserable condition, not freedom. Like international aid, UBI will not help people to succeed but rather will render them dependent on the aid, and the aid givers. Why not provide targeted aid to people truly in need instead of spreading resources thin? Net contributors will stigmatize net recipients as readily as they have stigmatized welfare recipients, even if payments come from a citizens’ wealth fund or some other contrivance.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17513-8_12

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