I think that's one of the biggest weaknesses of using the pandemic as an experiment on UBI - it's one of the best ones we'll get for a while (and I think we hav

I think that's one of the biggest weaknesses of using the pandemic as an experiment on UBI - it's one of the best ones we'll get for a while (and I think we have seen increases in luxury spending from most sectors which would indicate greater financial security) but at the same time we're seeing the continued echoes of supply chain shortages. It'll be hard to determine precisely why the price of meat has gone up from two prior, there are quite legitimate additional costs on production by having increased sanitary and working space requirements - and I think both sides of the UBI debate will be able to sanely say that those costs were either mostly due to the pandemic or mostly due to labour shortages driven by the covid benefit... and I don't know if we'll ever get a really clear answer.