Prateek Agrawal

Engineer, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Student

Everything! But extra passionate about saving and fixing the environment, rethinking the economic systems, and creating a business solution that does good for the society, and does it ethically at every stage of its operation.

There's a hypocritical stand that well-off citizens and politicians take against Universal Basic Income. They start with that will discourage them from working, and that governments can not afford to do that. But then once it gets proved that a country can actually afford it (and spends a lot on them indirectly), and that people are self driven, and don't just work for the money, they come back and say that, "who will do the job of cleaning toilets, and picking up the garbage, if not the poor." Saying that means that you can need poverty, and that you never really wanted them to come out of it in the first place. However, this is how I look at it. Once we have established that GDP is not a good measure of how good a country is doing, then creating jobs just for the sake of giving the jobless people work has a bad effect, since all operations in the country can run perfectly without the production from the jobless at the time, and the extra work mostly comes from exploiting resources, which only produces waste. Making not only the poor, but also the country and nature suffer, just because it is against the fundamentals of "earning your living" makes no logical sense. If their work can not contribute at that level of skill-set, then giving them the right to UBI will lead to far lesser loss to the economy, than if we go about looking for ways to create meaningless jobs for them.

Business Development, Engineering, Environment, Team Management