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Instead of giving people money, why not have bare minimum shelter, food and education that's available for everyone. make it a universal parachute. free money

• at-fates-hands 9y ago
  > Instead of giving people money, why not have bare minimum shelter, food and education that's available for everyone. There's already a myriad of government programs and safety nets that provide all of these and more.
  • _jal 9y ago
    ...Which, in the US, are fragmented, varyingly difficult to access, varyingly generous, and nowhere nearly universal. In other words, a 'universal basic shelter' program would look very different.
• WalterSear 9y ago
  In a way that buying essentials and handing them out does not?
• ashark 9y ago
  Why would directly paying for those essentials have a smaller effect on their prices than giving people money to pay for the same?
• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Instead of giving people money, why not have bare minimum shelter, food and education that's available for everyone. Because that traps people in he bare minimum, since improvements are often necessarily replacements rather than supplements. UBI lets small amounts of outside income provide tangible improvement.
• rad88 9y ago
  The whole point is to eliminate social programs.