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We've already experimented with UBI in 2020 and seen the result: - Huge levels of fraud (applications from overseas scammers for state unemployment benefits et
by Factorium 5y ago
We've already experimented with UBI in 2020 and seen the result:
- Huge levels of fraud (applications from overseas scammers for state unemployment benefits etc.)
- Widespread shortages of entry-level workers
- Massive inflation and economic dislocation
Instead of UBI, we should just stop illegal immigration, and support deportations, which will increase wages and lower cost of living (real estate) pressures. Exactly like the Trump policies of 2019 which saw the lowest Black unemployment rate in history...
Soup kitchens and homeless shelters, universal free and available contraception/abortions, and stopping the incentivization of single motherhood with via increased welfare benefits, will better deal with poverty in the short and long terms.
- dylkil 5y ago> which will increase wages and lower cost of living (real estate) pressures. this is nonsense
- fighterpilot 5y agoWhy? It should increase low-skilled wages since you're removing a chunk of low-skilled labor supply. It'd reduce rents by a little since the housing stock remains unchanged but demand is reduced, but the effect is probably small. Bad for the economy overall but these two claims seem pretty straightforward.
- OoTheNigerian 5y agoWere Nigerians (allegedly) the only ones making fraudulent applications? Why is it only Nigeria you could use as an example? Perpetuating nasty cliché tropes lead to stereotyping. Perhaps, that's your intention or not, but I just need to inform you and your ilk, that anytime a Nigerian is unfairly discriminated against off or online, you contributed to it.