Newfie wrote:I have slowly been becoming a supporter of a minimum basic income plan. There are a lot of open questions about this notion but it has some merit.
Prices of fentanyl and tranq will be adjusted accordingly to that.
A minimum wage
...if there are jobs on offer.
Basic but good health care
Easy, but first you have to disassemble your health insurance market and destroy your big pharma cartels and syndicates.
Ozempic(tm) cost in US $1200 -1800 per month of treatment and in Poland $90 per month of treatment - for uninsured.
Insured are getting it for $35 a month.
Free education, for all up through HS. College would be merit based.
This can be done but again - you need to disassemble your educational crime syndicates and bust large proportion of banking sector.
There would need to be a lot of adjustment and many details to be worked out. But they are no more difficult than the problems our current system has.
However it won't be done for a simple reason that it infringes rights of your rulers.
Health care would NOT cover self inflicted injuries and abuses.
So fatties (half of all Americans?), lung cancer victim with history of smoking and few other large groups would need to go off the window.
Food allowance would be for food, period.
These allowances have to be kept, unless you want stores to be looted. However you still cannot prevent diversion - say resale of received food for cash to buy fentanyl.
There would still be paid work for those that wanted to do it and compensation scales would need to be worked out.
What about those who don't want to do it?
Basic income or
food & fentanyl benefit?