HeartachesNhangovers
HeartachesNhangovers's JournalI think that's an overly simplistic answer.
I think that there are real obstacles to eliminating poverty and financial insecurity by simply giving people money.
One real obstacle is inflation. For example - I used to live in San Francisco, where rents and home prices are very high. Many people live outside of SF who would prefer to live right in town - maybe on Haight St. or in the Mission or the Marina - but they can't afford it. What do you think would happen to rents in SF if every single person had an extra $12,000 to spend? I think rents in SF would go up a few thousand dollars. Restaurant prices would also go up. So would prices at the grocery store and the gas station.
How do you think we'll prevent the benefit of a UBI from simply being negated by increasing prices? Price controls on all essentials? Like they have in Cuba or Venezuela?
Anyone who doesn't live a subsistence lifestyle
is "part of the problem". If you drive a vehicle, use a vehicle or products delivered on a vehicle, use manufactured goods, consume food that's processed or that's not grown by you or next door to you, you are "part of the problem".
Plenty of people believe climate change is real, believe that is is caused by human activity, but still continue to consume as if it weren't true. They are also "part of the problem".
Normal human activity causes climate change whether those humans are Republicans or Democrats, socialists, communists, anarchists. Nobody's hands are clean in the developed world when it comes to climate change.
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