2023-10-08 14:36 UTC
@alexch@ruby.social @scottsantens@hachyderm.io @ReimanSaara@mementomori.social
I worry about that. With just a small group, mass exploitation has little chance of popping up.
With universality, your landlord, any service provider, or just someone who’s help you need, is fully aware of your income stream and can try to lay claim to a portion of it in perpetuity. UBI gives you something to negotiate with, but doesn’t prevent desperation.
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@jqr@ruby.social 2023-10-08 14:37
@alexch@ruby.social @scottsantens@hachyderm.io @ReimanSaara@mementomori.social I don’t see an obvious way to prevent that exploitation with our current systems or UBI precepts. Rent is a claim to future income, so is a loan payment, and I think we want those. How to carve off the exploitation without encumbering UBI? Also, this problem already exists in the world of any regular government payment, which suggests we haven’t found a solution for this yet, and/or it should be solved independently