Now as a result of money leaving china for cheaper markets, india has become a viable alternative, on top of that outsourcing has sent large swatches of technical and service sector related jobs, it takes time but india experience real wage growth for 2 years straight, does this mean everyone will live happily ever after? No, will the competition tend to drive down wages? Yes, but if open trade occured and you removed regulatory hurdles that cripple the private sector their, legallly, you would probably see more job opportunities open up for those there.
Indian Economy: Population, Facts, GDP, Corruption, Business, Trade, FDI
Heritage foundation review of economic policy and freedom in India point to a very broken system,
You use Heritage as a source.
Literally everything that comes from them is propaganda. Their only reason to exist is propaganda.
Yes, there are broken systems in India.
However, the biggest issues are in the sustainability of the tribal peoples and villagers who comprise 70% of India's population. Do you really want to move all those people to the slums in the cities to find the type of work you are talking about? Check the happiness and satisfaction of a poor person in the village versus a poor person in the city and get back to me.
I would think if you want improvement you would act to actually change the system, not payoff the poor to support it even more with a wealth transfer, that we know will disincentivize work based on its very principle of operation and humans want to get as much for as little work as they can get away with.
Your claim "humans want to get as much for as little work as they can get away with" is probably the single worst assumption of your entire economic school.
How is the majority of the internet reliant on free labor at either the software or content level?
Why is there so much open-source software around?
Why do billions of people worldwide do volunteer work every year?
Why do mothers and fathers go so far above the call of duty to raise their children right?
Why do so many people take good care of their elderly parents?
Why do so many artists and musicians and writers do what they love for nothing or almost nothing?
Why do so many amateur athletes work so hard to improve their craft even when they know they'll never see a real payday?
Why do so many people hunt, fish, grow gardens and trees, run churches, run boy scout troops, and do other "work-like" things in their free time?
Why do rich people who are already set for life keep working?
Why do lottery winners almost always go back to work within a year or two?
In fact, trying to tie it all to money actually disincentives work. It's a long-proven psychological fact that providing a reward for a task focuses the gain on the reward, and disincentives the task itself. Scientific studies have shown that the ONLY tasks for which financial reward is effective in improving actual performance are in rote, mindless, easy tasks.
Take away the total reliance of finance, and you'll have MORE moms staying home to take better care of their kids, MORE families taking in their elderly parents and devoting more time to them, MORE artists and writers and musicians devoting time to their craft, MORE farmers working their family's land, MORE activists fighting for rights and restoring ecosystems. The only thing you'll have less of is mindless machine-like workers doing the mindless work of constant production. And that's the exact work we don't need, partially because machines can do it, and partially because we already produce far too much useless and redundant stuff.
It isn't a lie at all, its documented and I have posted said documentation and research on it. Volunteers volunteer because they have the financial ability to do so, if you need money you dont have the luxury to give your time and labor for free. WE are talking about workers who need to earn, and if you give them an option of getting something for nothing they will do the nothing, espescially if it works out better for them financially to keep their private productivity below a certain rate so they have no tax penalty or lose no money doing the least possible. Just think if I can get a subsidy as long as I make $200 and under a month, if I got a raise to say 250 a month, but that incurred a tax penalty of say 20% why would I ever do more work or even take a job that would increase my skill level to at that rate? I'm incentivized not to, because I do more work for the same amount of money.
Volunteers volunteer because they have the financial ability to do so, so give more people the financial ability to do so and you'll get more volunteers. Can you even read what you're saying - you just made my argument for me!
And again, if the ONLY reason for a worker to incur additional hours is for financial benefit, they'll be a crap worker. Again, THAT is scientifically proved, but that seems to be the kind of science you ignore. I don't want people doing crap tasks for meagre financial rewards anymore, and there's nothing in this globe that needs it except the interest-earning class and the marketers/advertisers who rely on us making and buying stuff we don't need.
A UBI doesn't encourage people to do any of those things, because there is no incentive to better one's self.
No incentive to better oneself? You think the incentive to better oneself comes from capitalism?
Yeah, tell every housewife in history, "You had no incentive to better yourself, because you knew it wouldn't improve your earning potential, so you're basically a useless human being."
People have their own natural incentive to better themselves. The vast majority of the world's population is either not working, retired, or in a job that ain't ever going to change no matter how they better themselves...and yet they still find the urge to better themselves. It's human nature to want to be a better person. The global focus on profit motive helps to destroy that nature. Move to UBI, and the urge to better oneself will soon become GREATER, not lesser, because it will be pulled away from profit focus.
youre probably right...
