UBI seems obv at some point but current levels of wealth in society are still so far off from what will be there in the future. Seems like the way to go is to optimize for innovation first and then start optimizing for a good society later.
Maybe something needs to happen in US tho. I think ray dalio posted graphs that shows that the gap between the lower and upper class in US is at a all time high, and that purchase power/happiness have hardly increased at all for bottom 30% in that last decades.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-b...ies-ray-dalio/
But dunno, I live in the Netherlands which is optimizing more for social structure of society. This is clearly good for the happiness of the poulation (Living in a full capitalist society is detrimental for your happiness. ) However, my life gets a little bit better because I can use things like uber/whatsapp that could be more easily created in a less livable place like the US. If they start doing UBI there it would probably be bad for me.
By the way even if UBI isnt obviously good atm it seems really obvious to experiment with it. If its good/bad depends on how people will respond to it. We cant know for sure unless we try. Some chance people will start working less because they get have less reason too when they get free money. Some chance they will start working more or become more inclined to pursue innovative/risky paths ( More entrepeneurs would be really good),because they have less reason to be afraid of going broke. The question is if you can get reliable estimates of how it would play out by experimenting on a small scale. The cost of trying out UBI in one state or city is really low compared to the potential benefit if it turns out to be good so why arent more countries running small scale experiments?. Obv for the world as a whole it would be optimal if one country just went ahead and implemented if full-scale. Ofc it would be really minev for that particular country to be the first to try it so no1 is gonna do that.
If i was dictator over the world i would run it something like this. 75% of countries in the world are randomly assigned to get ruled by a variety of economic systems that are currently known as the best systems. 25% of the countries are randomly assigned to try out new systems. If such a new system crashes the society, the 75% will fully pay to rebuild the country.