Thomas Paine's Argument for Basic Income Explained
Nation-states are too large to effectively test things like basic income.<p>Those pushing basic income and expecting it to fix many problems aren&#x27;t paying attention to the fact that that&#x27;s how every policy got started, as a cure-all massive policy proposal. Over the years, like object-oriented programming, we realize that in practice it isn&#x27;t as ideal as we thought, and indeed we&#x27;ve now abstracted and complicated our systems even more.<p>We need a more scientific, incremental form of governance and policy-making, one that is evolutionary and takes natural organic approaches. Basic income is the exact opposite of that - a massive (the most massive) policy ever constructed which presupposes way too much.<p>If you want to and can test it at the state level great. States should be the &quot;laboratories of democracy&quot;. But we need some realism about it, because far too many discussions about it are not.