| Resumen: |
Five centuries after Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), the idea of Universal Basic Income has largely remained on the utopian side of public debate – a political postulate rather than a policy. This chapter steps back from advocacy. It shifts the question from whether UBI is desirable to whether a workable scheme could be designed at all, under realistic constraints. Treating UBI as a design problem – or, more precisely, as a constraint-satisfaction puzzle – the chapter extracts from the contemporary debate nine feasibility constraints that any candidate scheme would have to satisfy at once. A design that satisfies one condition by breaking another does not hold together as a solution. The constraints are set out as a structured questionnaire any candidate UBI design can be tested against, with the iterative discipline of design thinking: any attempted fix typically shifts the stress to other constraints, and each design move has to be traced through the rest of the set. |
