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I actually am a AnCap like Rothbard (not like him but simular in some ways) and I disagree with him.

He does not actually make a good arguments about BI, he has some basic wellfair principly and talkes about them, without actually going into the exact idea of a BI.

He makes some general statments about wellfair and a particular implmentation of wellfair. Also he makes a typical error that he makes all the time, he compares to some optimal system and not to the current system.

I really dislike that Rothbard is the Anarcho Capitalist that is best known.



He did speak specifically about BI. I'm not sure what you're talking about.


I did not listen to all of it, but one of his main arguments is that as soon as the amount you get is bigger then the amount you would earn you stop earning. He talked about this for a long time.

But the hole point of BI (as I understand the concept) that it does not matter how much you work, or how much you earn. You just get BI and from there on just let people work, its not BI or work, probebly both.


There are different variations of the idea. Whether or not it is income-based is basically irrelevant. People will still stop working, because the marginal value of employment will plummet.




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