Foodstamps

[onlinebiker]

welfare programs are a base salary, just not for the people who are broke and on welfare.  They're a base salary for processed dairy and corn producers, and the people who retail those products.



I think that so long as necessary items remain consumer goods - base salaries will be inevitable but also insufficient.  Lets say the gov gives everyone 1k.  Well....people who work have more, and theyre competing from a position of leverage for things both people need and want.  That 1k isn't going to buy much of anything when the dust clears.

If they weren't (consumer goods), there wouldn't be any need for base salaries, and the funds used to generate a base salary could just as easily be tasked at turning those needful things into public services.  We already insist that things like home ownership and food security create productive members of scoeity and the economy, with multiplicative benefits for their children (and childrens productivity to society and the economy).  We also know that food production and construction are things best accomplished by large organizations with strong central planning.  Ensuring that every american has a house..that they own...and food..that they own.....would do far more (for far less) than handing people money.

Imagine a life without rent or grocery bills

When you can make zero plus zero equal 3, that brand of economics will be viable.