Post #4485421
2026-08-09 22:02 UTC
You don't become slave to a state, because the state has no choice. That's why they call it Universal. The state swears to give everyone a salary, and cannot selectively reward or punish anyone.
The problem with UBI is that if you don't also include rent control, landlords will just steal it. But with the unlimited economic robbery halted in a given country, a UBI can work pretty well.
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@divVerent@social.vivaldi.net 2026-08-10 03:48
@cy @Mephisto@mastodon.gamedev.place Indeed. If everyone can afford to eat, then the market sees raising prices will increase profit, until some people are too poor to eat again. The max profit equilibrium is never where everyone can afford it. If one then raises the UBI, one risks ending up where 99% are too poor to eat properly, and 1% are billionaires, evading taxes used to pay the UBI. Like in the USSR. So either one must plug every single tax loophole, or one must cap costs.