Ask HN: A basic income variant that pays people based on self-employment effort?

I think just about any attempt at enforcement and "means testing" will itself cost more than the "savings" you'd have by not paying certain people - and that's before we start talking about false positives, false negatives, & people explicitly trying to game the system.

How will this be enforced? How will you define this "genuine attempt" vs "non-genuine attempt"?

You're going to need a massive government bureaucracy to monitor everyone for compliance (or some kind of massive AI surveillance system).

AI would be less expensive.

How do you figure?

There is an easier way, albeit counterintuitive - pay people for any provably performed, freely chosen "work".

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