If you don’t want workers able to unionize in order to get more negotiating power then I think this is the next best way to empower workers. If you don’t NEED to take that crappy $7.50/hr job to do things like eat and live then you can hold out for a higher paying job or if enough people refuse to take bad jobs for even worse wages then it will force employers to raise wages.
It reminds me when people would say that mexicans do jobs americans don’t want to. Well, to be accurate the statement should have been mexicans do jobs for wages that americans wouldn’t do them for.
A Basic Income leads to more liberty and more happiness for society.
Maine Mariner says (post 13) we should give $60,000 per person to the poor (A Milton Friedman idea.)
ksen is all over this thread touting Friedman and anti-conservative Socialist ideas in support of a guaranteed minimum income. "A Basic Income leads to more liberty and more happiness for society."