The Finance and Expenditure Committee of the New Zealand government held a meeting with the nation's central bank governors yesterday during which the country's central bankers admitted two things.
The financial implications of UBI are staggering; in the U.S., it could amount to an annual expenditure in the ballpark of $3 trillion.
If bitcoin, or any of the affinity scams created in its wake, strive to be pillars of the global economy at some point this century it is imperative that the boring, un-sexy things that people don't find particularly interesting are taken care of.
This type of repulsive and counterproductive discrimination needs to end.
When people can't save their hard work in a good money they will find themselves living lives filled with bad things.
Most humans do not know this.
Hopefully, the public will begin to have more serious conversations about this growing ethical dilemma.