[Wikimedia-l] Basic income & Wikimedians

[Nathan]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> If a basic income is implemented somewhere in the world, people will have
> more time for themselves in mean (probably more partial-time work), so they
> will have more time to edit the Wikimedia projects, among other possible
> activities. ~S


Even with my basic undergraduate economics knowledge I can see that the
economic picture is more complicated than this. Where does the money come
from? Will the resulting inflation offset most or all of the value of the
"basic income"?  Will the massive increase in government expenditure make
the country less competitive? Etc. etc.

And anyway as Fae said, this all seems to be fairly far afield from the
topic of this list.