{"id":103675,"date":"2020-03-12T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-before-it-didnt-work"},"modified":"2020-03-12T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:44:09","slug":"universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-before-it-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-before-it-didnt-work","title":{"rendered":"Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried Before. It Didn\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-before-it-didnt-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those calling for a government-funded universal basic income are acting as though it\u2019s a hot new idea. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s been tried before\u2014and it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, universal basic income\u2014also known as guaranteed minimum income\u2014provides cash payments to all citizens, regardless of need.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates range from tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to libertarian scholar Charles Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those calling for a government-funded universal basic income are acting as though it\u2019s a hot new idea. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s been tried before\u2014and it didn\u2019t work. In essence, universal basic income\u2014also known as guaranteed minimum income\u2014provides cash payments to all citizens, regardless of need. Advocates range from tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2019,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}