Price ceilings have a very bad history. People invent things like furnished apartments with crazy costs to make up for the lost rent increases or worse. NYC has

Price ceilings have a very bad history. People invent things like furnished apartments with crazy costs to make up for the lost rent increases or worse. NYC has a good history as record of how price fixing can go south. Giving people vouchers for goods and services creates a lot of bloat for politicians to then run against and remove entirely. I’m for UBI because I’ve seen time and time again the market fail far too many people to be relied upon exclusively. But I don’t think it’s a wise priority right now. The first and top priority is for people to get off their butts and do their civic duties. Learn your political economic history. Learn the systems and political institutions at play. Then contribute at all levels of government: locally through to nation wide. Until that happens we’re going to be stuck with two parties that are essentially the same thing with superficial differences - or worse. Edit-oh and stop throwing your hands up anytime an outrage or corruption is revealed. It’s not acceptable for politicians to be corrupt anymore than it’s acceptable for individuals to shirk their civic duties. The one thrives on the other. And fatalism is just ridiculously destructive.