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Only really poor people will consume more. When those at the very low end of the income scale have, say, 100% more money through UBI (ignoring the actual value
by usrusr 10y ago
Only really poor people will consume more. When those at the very low end of the income scale have, say, 100% more money through UBI (ignoring the actual value of that money, just sticking to the numbers for now), then high income earners would have 50% more, or 10% more or just 1% more, depending on their earned income. Relative to the high earning class, the poor will be able to bid more, inflation or not. A shift in resource allocation, "diverting water from golf courses to subsistence farmers", to paint a grossly simplified picture. Prices will rise, but not by the same amount as total income.
(theoretically there might be a few exceptions, e.g. goods that are not very flexible in supply and target a very specific low income demographic)