# Scaling up with conditional basic income **URL:** \ **Category:** Essays\ **Created:** [April 17, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/scaling-up-with-conditional-basic-income/10468 "2023-04-17T15:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Spaydh](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/spaydh/32/2827_2.png) [@Spaydh](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/Spaydh)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/scaling-up-with-conditional-basic-income/10468/10 "2023-04-17T21:52:31Z")
Well no, at least, not right now. To get slashed, you would have to double sign on a consumer chain, then there would need to be a specific proposal type on the hub called an « equivocation proposal » that votes based on on-chain evidence to confirm that you should be slashed for double signing, and only then would you actually get slashed. > [@Slashing updates in replicated security](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/slashing-updates-in-replicated-security/9571): > > One of our goals at the Informal Systems Cosmos Hub team is to be open and responsive to feedback from the community on our work. For this reason, we aim to get all important governance proposals in front of the community on the governance forum well in advance of voting so that we can modify them with feedback received. We put up the draft Replicated Security proposal on the forum in mid-December 2022. Since then we have received a lot of feedback. This post deals with one piece of feedback in… But yeah otherwise you’re correct, the soft opt-out removes penalties which returns choice to the validators. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/scaling-up-with-conditional-basic-income/10468)._