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This makes me wonder if food deserts would persist even in a UBI world. Within a traditionally poor community, with a lack of education about healthy eating as
by btown 11y ago
This makes me wonder if food deserts would persist even in a UBI world. Within a traditionally poor community, with a lack of education about healthy eating as well as a lack of competition between grocery stores, could we see locations where all foodstuffs became more expensive, and people maintained their existing eating habits?
I'll need to do much deeper thinking on this.
- pdabbadabba 11y agoI expect they would persist. The poor, ultimately, would remain poor unless we're talking about a UBI well above anything anyone has proposed for the United States. But UBI could help alleviate the significant stresses of navigating the byzantine U.S. entitlement programs, reduce the stigmatizing effect of poverty by eliminating the application processes for entitlements, and save money on the government side by reducing complexity and bureaucracy.