Reviews for Why Basic Income?

[Doomroar]

Just to let people know, Basic Income is just a safety net, is a reassurance for people to know that they wont go on hungry, sick and un-sheltered, is the same as universal healthcare and free tuition, they exist to assure you a minimum quality of life, but the safety nets still need to be taken care of, they need maintenance, for they don't come free, they have to be sustained by an active work force, that keeps on innovating and moving forward to a better work, just because you get a basic income, doesn't means that you can now detach yourself from society and leave it all in the hands of drones to manage.

For once the moment machines become able to self regulate and improve they will stop being machine and pass to be something else, an artificial organism or an advanced AI, which doesn't really has any duty to maintain us, secondly if management is still done by humans, the those humans have to be regulated by society in order to keep a check on power misuse, and a big part of that process comes from being an active member of society, being that as an artist, scientist, engineer, social worker, chef, nurse, teacher, etc.

Total automation and complete BI may make the concept of work as a form to acquire sustenance obsolete, but work will still serve as a form of regulating the system.

[Manlo]

Good video.

It's obvious that as technology advances, a slow transition to a basic income system will be necessary. This is of course not the case with still-developing countries, at least not yet. But I agree that North America is coming to a point like that due to conglomerates such as Google (Alphabet) and Amazon investing more and more into automation.
When the technological peak of humankind aka our "singularity" era comes, we will have no option but to be an ultimate-left society. Of course I'm talking about hundreds of years from now on (if not thousands), but still it's really interesting to see this necessary movements towards the economic left today.

[matt-likes-swords]

Very well made video! Good animation and a good introduction to the issues.

Basic income *feels* wrong to me, but it looks like trials are giving good results, so I'm not against it if the data is positive.

[JTStarrProductions]

Exceptional quality, and with an important message to. You've gone above and beyond. This is the kind of thing NGOs need to start paying for.

[DoomRater]

I don't normally watch movies, let alone political ones. But Basic Income will become a necessity eventually. And the faster it gets support and gets passed in first world nations, the better. I'm an American and I approve this message.

Oh, I'm supposed to talk about the art, animation, and clarity of the message? Everything is built to convey the message both clearly and subtly. Use of color theory and all that.