The governments should give each citizen a basic income, so they have enough money to live on, even if they are unemployed. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It has been argued that, in order for citizens to be able to maintain an acceptable standard of living in a country, the government should institute a policy of payments to them regardless of their employment status.

While

such

an idea may be appealing in principle, certain social and economic realities make it infeasible at the present time. Foremost among the counterarguments to

such

schemes is that of inflation. If the government were to set up

such

a system, it would need to print more

money

and the prices of goods and services would rise to meet

this

, rendering any theoretical benefits unworkable.

Moreover

, In economic terms, countries are not uniform in the distribution of their economic production

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so providing the same amount of

money

to everyone regardless of the reality of their context might adversely affect the balance of the local economy.

Similarly

,

such

a system is more likely to reinforce and perpetuate social inequalities in a given area. If

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people

- who typically have a larger amount of financial knowledge and access to resources relative to working-class

people

- are given a similar amount of

money

, they will be better able to effectively exploit

this

.

By contrast

, poorer

people

are more likely to use

this

money

to meet basic survival needs.

This

would be the case, particularly if the previously mentioned currency inflation occurred. In summary,

due to

the aforementioned economic and social reasons connected to inflation and social inequality, systems which are designed to provide

people

with a baseline income (

while

well-intentioned) are likely to create new problems or make existing ones worse. With

this

in mind, it seems appropriate to completely disagree with their implementation.