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Who was it that advocated for UBI back in the 1960's?
I believe you are thinking of Milton Friedman? In the 1980’s economist Charles Murray became a proponent of his idea. I thought it to be slightly outrageous at the time but in light of today’s global economy it makes more sense that ever:
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When people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes something like this: “But people will just use it to live off the rest of us!” “People will waste their lives!” Or, as they would have put it in a bygone age, a guaranteed income will foster idleness and vice. I see it differently. I think that a UBI is our only hope to deal with a coming labor market unlike any in human history and that it represents our best hope to revitalize American civil society.
