imu-li asked: How would you incentivize a voluntary basic income system/agreement?
Basic income just a statist stop-gap solution. Soft material post-scarcity in high-tech communities based on mutual aid, solidarity and usage of even low-productivity labor where its comparative disadvantage is the lowest. If one were to run the numbers, accounting for the fact that a lot of stuff is artificially expensive, maintaining a lifestyle that can support human dignity in a free-as-in-speech society would be quite cheap. The present support for massive sprawling states with huge taxation shows that people are willing to sacrifice from the fruits of their own labor for the sake of others. Deliberate social engineering efforts to establish planned intentional communities supportive of such arrangements and avoiding the segregation of high- and low-productivity people. Utilizing the social mechanisms currently driving gentrification to create incentives for economic desegregation instead. Eradicating inhumane structures destroying many people’s productive ability. Organic property rights settling allocation questions to optimize human preferences while eliminating forms of useless rentseeking. Strong reputational systems giving status incentives for sharing. Normalizing EA memes. Minimizing coordination costs of such systems with technological solutions. Decentralizing control of productive capital via minifacturing etc.
A fully-trained promethea would have a productivity around $100 000 a year at the minimum assuming no taxes etc., and a low-productivity person can be maintained for $5000 a year assuming elimination of artificial costs. A fully-trained promethea can thus easily maintain up to ten low-productivity persons, and will be incentivized to do so if said low-productivity persons are cool to have hanging around, because it’s subjectively better to invest in the company of interesting persons than many material things. GiveDirectly for low-productivity persons not cool to hang around, because them suffering deprivation is still in violation of my preferences.
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