Hello people! How do you think decred could be linked in someway with the project Universal basic income? Since Decred and winc-ev dot org both have very similar vision and goals! inclusive, progressive, etc.,
Universal basic income and a currency based on non government, universal democratic control have no reason to be bedfellows. Dream on. Can any government create decred en masse at a whim? No. They must create it just like you and I do - produce it via work. In this case expend resources to mine it. Is there an unlimited supply of decred as long as you can print it or add zero's to an account balance? No. Decred is finite. It can be divided to quite small numbers but even that is finite. If I have too much decred can somebody take it and give it to someone who has none? Not yet and hopefully never. If you want a universal basic income spend money on R&D for energy. If we have a great surplus of energy and can control its form then we have no need for income as we can create anything out of something that is plentiful and of little or no value.
Although the ideals may be similar, I have to agree with @drunkenmugsy on this one. However, I do think that digital currencies may facilitate the distribution of a basic income in the future. How this will look like is not clear, but I think that with Decred we are definitely making progress towards a system that can be used for this purpose.
So, Not exactly the same topic as universal income, but the MIT DCI is working with the Mexican government on a pilot program to see if crypto can be a better means of distributing welfare assets (think food-stamps etc). The logic being that crypto can bypass corruption where some is skimmed off the top, and of-course it can be validated that the recipient received the assets, while ensuring the privacy of the recipient (to at-least the same standard as the current system). So this is something that is being investigated right now, the hard part is a user friendly experience, and the infrastructure to covert the crypto back to local currency. That being said not every country has the same standards for being a "money transmitter" for example if on small values one were to allow locations that sell lottery tickets to exchange government crypto for currency. Another example would be like in Asia where you "top off" your prepaid phone card at any one of a million local stores if they could give you the government crypto in exchange. Naturally this crypto would be backed by the government distributing the asset. This could solve the problem of getting local currency for the recipient until crypto can be spent directly. (there is also the whole prepaid visa concept...but not every area may be equipped to handle this but the point of experimentation is to figure out what works and what fails and why)