Someone else may be able to come up with a more concise and better worded argument for it, but the way we’ve implemented private ownership/use of natural resources seems pretty shitty. Especially considering how many people have been screwed over and how much damage is often done in the process.
Owning something that existed long before people, and would have continued to exist if we’ve never evolved, seems suspect in general. While there’s value in the labor involved in extracting or preparing these resources for use, the material itself wasn’t created by anyone and should belong to everyone in some way.
A portion of the income derived from the exploitation of all natural resources should be redistributed as UBI.
Land should be nominally “owned” by all citizens of a country, and leased to specific people on an ongoing basis with similar rights to use it as currently, but without the right to “sell” it. You can choose to stop leasing it, and lease somewhere else instead.
Then the proceeds of that should be used to fund the UBI.
Someone else may be able to come up with a more concise and better worded argument for it, but the way we’ve implemented private ownership/use of natural resources seems pretty shitty. Especially considering how many people have been screwed over and how much damage is often done in the process.
Owning something that existed long before people, and would have continued to exist if we’ve never evolved, seems suspect in general. While there’s value in the labor involved in extracting or preparing these resources for use, the material itself wasn’t created by anyone and should belong to everyone in some way.
A portion of the income derived from the exploitation of all natural resources should be redistributed as UBI.
I would extend that concept to land itself.
Land should be nominally “owned” by all citizens of a country, and leased to specific people on an ongoing basis with similar rights to use it as currently, but without the right to “sell” it. You can choose to stop leasing it, and lease somewhere else instead.
Then the proceeds of that should be used to fund the UBI.