The benefit of a market economy is that if people really do consider something critical, they will pay more for it. The increase profit margins will attract co

The benefit of a market economy is that if people really do consider something critical, they will pay more for it. The increase profit margins will attract competitive companies or existing companies will be forced to pay workers more for overtime to satisfy the demand. The negative of this is that the poor or unemployed have very few dollars with which to vote. A UBI solves this by giving them at least some small percentage of the vote.