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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Why Unconditional Transfers Are Not Exploitative
Published in: Basic Income Reconsidered
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In order to define and introduce the central task of part II, I will begin this chapter by placing some of the most important claims of part I in a broader perspective. Chapter 2 identified a number of reasons for why the demands of equality of status and, more specifically, basic autonomy offer important grounds for why a basic income solution would be preferable to its conditional rivals. Up until now, I have assumed that there may be a broad compatibility between the objectives of promoting equality of status, on the one hand, and counteracting the impact of brute luck on people’s economic life prospects (i.e., equality of opportunity), on the other.