Boston Basic Income #3: Skepticism of the Idea (Poor Audio)
Channel: Boston Basic Income
Date: 2018-05-16

For our third week, we focused on some of the skepticism surrounding basic income, much of which is perfectly reasonable.

We had two optional readings, one pro-UBI and one anti-UBI.

The pro-UBI reading is a blog post written by Madeleine Kando, who is a member of our meetup group:
http://european-americanblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/universal-basic-income-idea-whose-time.html

The anti-UBI reading is an article is from The Economist entitled "Basically Flawed":
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21699907-proponents-basic-income-underestimate-how-disruptive-it-would-be-basically-flawed

Both articles are from a few years ago, but they each represent common arguments that tend to arise in the debate about basic income.