Hmm. In all fairness I’m not quite sure what he means by eugenics. Historically, the term is virtually never applied to non-coercive measures (such as e.g. IQ cut-off at sperm banks).
“Even though I like both basic income guarantees and eugenics, I don’t think these are two things that go well together – making the income conditional upon sterilization is a little too close to coercion for my purposes. Still, probably better than what we have right now.”
Hmm. In all fairness I’m not quite sure what he means by eugenics. Historically, the term is virtually never applied to non-coercive measures (such as e.g. IQ cut-off at sperm banks).
From this comment:
“Even though I like both basic income guarantees and eugenics, I don’t think these are two things that go well together – making the income conditional upon sterilization is a little too close to coercion for my purposes. Still, probably better than what we have right now.”