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> What people don’t consider is that when “we”, the people with houses, don’t spend our dollars housing homeless people, we pay sooner or later in other ways wh
by delusional 3y ago
> What people don’t consider is that when “we”, the people with houses, don’t spend our dollars housing homeless people, we pay sooner or later in other ways whether we want to or not when society around us partly disintegrates and additional effects start stacking up: substance abuse, violent crime, healthcare costs etc.
There's a different way to look at it as well. I don't so much pay for housing as I pay for my choice of housing. If I couldn't afford housing I'd just get whatever was deemed enough for me, the system would essentially make the choice. What i pay for is the privilege of choosing something that I want, instead of what's convenient for the system.
- travisjungroth 3y agoI think it’s harder for people to see it that way when there’s means testing. Also when you’re at the just-better-than free tier, but paying full price. I think that’s the nice thing about UBI. It’s a little different to rail against u employed people getting $1,000 a month when you’re also getting $1,000 a month.
- mjevans 3y agoUBI won't answer the problem of RENT. The rent will always rise to pickup the new headroom until there is no longer headroom. All the profit will go to the rent seekers who leave nothing for anyone to get ahead.
- Clubber 3y agoWith UBI though, you can move to a much cheaper location and live there.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThere seems to be a lot of housing going unused in declining job markets, and I hope UBI makes it feasible for people to use it more.