{"id":39630,"date":"2017-08-03T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39630"},"modified":"2017-08-02T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T02:04:43","slug":"words-numbers-is-ubi-better-than-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/words-numbers-is-ubi-better-than-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Words &#038; Numbers: Is UBI Better Than Welfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rp4oBYSfSJo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 2 Aug 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A viewer recently asked us what Words &#038; Numbers thought of Universal Basic Income.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Davies likes the idea of it, provided it\u2019s done well, but doesn\u2019t think it could ever possibly be done well. But what about a theoretical UBI? If we could actually figure out how to implement that well, would that work? And why wouldn\u2019t that work in the real world? This week on Words and Numbers, Antony and James R. Harrigan tackle the issue that\u2019s getting a lot of attention in Silicon Valley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 2 Aug 2017 A viewer recently asked us what Words &#038; Numbers thought of Universal Basic Income. Antony Davies likes the idea of it, provided it\u2019s done well, but doesn\u2019t think it could ever possibly be done well. But what about a theoretical UBI? If we could actually figure out how to implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84],"tags":[755,95,91,793,1091],"class_list":["post-39630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","tag-incentives","tag-jobs","tag-poverty","tag-subsidies","tag-ubi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ajc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39631,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630\/revisions\/39631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}