Disagree strongly that you should combine UBI and carbon tax to same policy framework.
Carbon tax needs to function globally. An UBI scheme will be - for the foreseeable future - a local policy enacted within the borders of a sovereign political entity.
The economic actions of every human being must somehow be encompassed in the carbon tax scheme.
UBI on the other hand, is about how local governments wish to split and spread the dole.
Were you to combine these two into one, it would mean massive capital flows from the rich countries to the poor. It did not work well in the scope of development aid. You could say development aid has only made third world poorer.
If you could give this "global UBI" to people personally it might work better - stimulating local markets and entrepreneurs. Because everybody likes to get rich, and once you have UBI-loaded consumers everywhere, suddenly it makes more sense to offer services and products that were economically untenable before.
So if you could in some non-dystopian scifi future give direct UBI payments to people personally, then maybe this would make sense. But while we are seemingly moving towards a world with unconstrained financial services for everyone, we are not there yet! And we need carbon tax yesterday!
How are we not there yet? Well, according to the Economist, for example only half of the people in Latin America have a bank account. We can imagine that we can leapfrog to a future where everyone has a bank account through mobile banking services, but - not there yet!
Carbon tax needs to function globally. An UBI scheme will be - for the foreseeable future - a local policy enacted within the borders of a sovereign political entity.
The economic actions of every human being must somehow be encompassed in the carbon tax scheme.
UBI on the other hand, is about how local governments wish to split and spread the dole.
Were you to combine these two into one, it would mean massive capital flows from the rich countries to the poor. It did not work well in the scope of development aid. You could say development aid has only made third world poorer.
If you could give this "global UBI" to people personally it might work better - stimulating local markets and entrepreneurs. Because everybody likes to get rich, and once you have UBI-loaded consumers everywhere, suddenly it makes more sense to offer services and products that were economically untenable before.
So if you could in some non-dystopian scifi future give direct UBI payments to people personally, then maybe this would make sense. But while we are seemingly moving towards a world with unconstrained financial services for everyone, we are not there yet! And we need carbon tax yesterday!
How are we not there yet? Well, according to the Economist, for example only half of the people in Latin America have a bank account. We can imagine that we can leapfrog to a future where everyone has a bank account through mobile banking services, but - not there yet!