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We have a lot of humanitarian reasons to support UBI, but I hear too little of the selfish reasons businesses might have to support it.
If UBI were introduced, businesses could throw off a number of shackles.
With minimum wage removed (or at least redundant), people can pay workers €2 an hour, because every unit of currency earned gives marginal benefit. Of course, with everyone receiving minimum wage without working, labour becomes a seller's market. Everyone would gain the ability to simply walk away, which will tend to raise the price of labour.
With minimum wage out of the way, no business needs to think if a job really brings €15,000 per year in value - they just advertise any position and see who pitches up.
Job security could become a thing of the past. We currently recognize that an employer cannot tell people to leave because they just feel like it, because people rely on those jobs to survive. But if people *didn't* rely on jobs to survive, if they held them purely for additional income, we would have no need to legislate that businesses look after people. This arrangement seems a big improvement - businesses generally don't look after people well. The fact that someone can run a factory which produces car parts, or a restaurant, or series of restaurants, really doesn't show that we should trust them with the incredibly important task of looking after people.