Mastodawn

"Universal Basic Income will never work! It will immediately be soaked up by rent and other price increases!"

So, this is exactly the same as saying that the whole idea that competition drives down prices - you know, the core tenet at the heart of the idea of that a free market is a legitimate idea that serves the public good - is false.

UBI is the compromise position.

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@mhoye capitalists realized how potentially dangerous an idea it was for them so they moved to colonize it and turn the primary publicly espoused form of it into, essentially, "what if your paycheck got direct deposited into your various landlords' accounts". so the specifics of how, why, and for whom are critical in any discourse about it.