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As with current welfare programs: you get a check every <interval>, end of story. People are free to make bad decisions and get themselves evicted, but those situations will be because someone is incapable of managing their money, not because they're incapable of making it.

Likewise, landlords will be more willing to give people a chance because they know you're not going to 'lose your job' so to speak. That said, the idea of a basic income seems like it should also include free courses on managing your money – best practices, techniques, ways to work around impulse buying, how RRSPs/401k/etc. work, and so on.

Also, welfare programs as currently implemented aren't a safety net below existing incomes; they're not a line of credit that you fall back on when your car dies again. They're programs which are paid in lieu of an actual income, which is frustrating to apply for and be on, and in most cases they pay you so little that you can't afford e.g. child care and rent, but which also force you to prove that you're out there applying for jobs even though you can't afford someone to watch your kid while you do.




Just because someone isn't going to lose their "job" (BI), what's to say it will end up in the landlord's hand? They can still default on payments. I wonder if signing over all/some of the BI to the landlord so it goes direct could be a good upgrade. It comes with the creditworthiness of the state (in california that is less than 100% mind you).

Thoughts on the risk of someone not paying their BI to the landlord?


Presumably eviction?

If you currently make a living wage and you don't pay your rent you still get evicted, so I don't think it would necessarily be any different.




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