Basic income

See for instance “Could basic income be a vaccination against poverty that ultimately saves more money than it costs?”. I’m not sure how important this cause is, but there does seem to be a sizable online community around this, e.g. at The Basic Income Community on Reddit • /r/BasicIncome.

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• Decent introduction on Vox
  • Links to an article by Charles Murray
• Basic Income – Y Combinator

Could help with Misallocation of Talent in some cases

As income inequality increases due to increasing automation and decreasing relevance of sub 130 iq individuals, this may be a viable way to keep them happy

Some of Vipul Naik’s posts on the subject:

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/1520172064903930/permalink/1691263954461406/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/1520172064903930/permalink/1730626980525103/
• https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10211189184501372
• https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10214054170204224
• https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10213202671517289

Howie Lempel: https://howielempel.com/2017/03/09/evaluatingcash/

Paul Christiano: It’s not economically inefficient for a UBI to reduce recipient’s employment