{"id":77293,"date":"2018-03-31T03:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:13:52","slug":"the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Universal Basic Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was on a panel at a recent conference when the moderator asked audience and panel members what they thought of UBI. The overwhelming consensus of the 500 or so people in the room appeared to be \u201cwe\u2019re skeptical, but should experiment.\u201d UBI sounds like a good or not-so-good idea to different constituents because we have so little understanding of either how we would do it, or how people would react. None of us really knows what we\u2019re talking about when it comes to UBI, akin to being in a drunken bar argument before there were smartphones and Wikipedia. But there are a few basic principles and pieces of research that can help.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Liberals and conservatives alike love\u2014and fear\u2014the idea of giving free money to everyone. But we have to try it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Joi Ito BY <a class=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" rel=\"author\" to=\"\/author\/joi-ito\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/joi-ito\">Joi Ito<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a panel at a recent conference when the moderator asked audience and panel members what they thought of UBI. The overwhelming consensus of the 500 or so people in the room appeared to be \u201cwe\u2019re skeptical, but should experiment.\u201d UBI sounds like a good or not-so-good idea to different constituents because we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77293","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77443,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77293\/revisions\/77443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}