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UBI Cash Payments Reduced Homelessness, Increased Employment in Denver
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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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Every single study on UBI finds that it is a good idea that benefits both the recipients and society as a whole, but because it contradicts the dominant ideology it can't be allowed to happen.
If people aren't forced to work to live then how can I get cheap labor for my shitty business that my dad gave me?
Raise their rent
Which we all know would happen IMMEDIATELY in lockstep with any widespread rollout of UBI, and any complaint would be met with half the country screeching "FREE MARKET REEEEEE"
Guess we better institute rent controls first then
Rent Control can only have one outcome. Decreased amount of available new or renovated rentals which coupled with an ever increasing demand for housing, creates some of the housing shortages we see in larger cities today.
UBI can be an effective way to fight poverty, and would be an even more effective way to combat poverty if we implemented a Negative Income tax whereby all welfare programs are rolled into the funding.
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest revolution in history and led to an almost entirely equitable distribution of land ownership
And how did that work out for the estimated 15-55 million people that died of starvation as a result of the "equitable distribution of land ownership"?
Source
Wikipedia lol
Would you like more sources?
The Guardian
NPR
Britannica
Al Jazeera
Oh wow, all bourgeois press or capitalist state affiliated media. I'm sure they have no bias that influences their portrayal of communist china.
That alone would be better than UBI.