• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If you have basic universal income, all products and especially rent becomes more expensive overnight so still not much of a safely net. Increase UBI to keep trend with the prices and you have some serious inflation.

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      2 years ago

      This is the same tired argument that’s been used by the wealth hoarding class since like the 1800s. The facts don’t support it.

      8 hour work days will kill the economy - nope

      5 day work week will kill the economy - nope

      Minimum wage will kill the economy - nope

      <Insert the same argument for UBI> - nope

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          2 years ago

          So you can insult and call me pathetic all you want. It doesn’t really help your argument.

          How do you address the fact that every other time someone has claimed the same thing about any systemic economic change ruining the economy they have been proven wrong?

          [Edit]Oh I didn’t read usernames before replying. I should know better than to expect anything other than insults and boring old tropes from you.

          Fuck off.

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            2 years ago

            Boo. I am in favour of UBI but I would like to disavow this line of reasoning. “You must be wrong because people like you have been wrong in the past” is just ad hominem with extra steps.

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      2 years ago

      Something that I find odd about this argument is that you’re supposing an increase in prices will subtract from income to counter out the UBI, but it can only divide if you think about it. So it still has a levelling effect.