I’m not strongly against ubi, but I’ve always found the argument that injecting people with cash in the greater context of free market capitalism simply leading to things becoming more expensive pretty persuasive. You could match it with some kind of network of price controls but that seems like a lot of administrative overhead with the strong potential for unexpected outcomes. Now, I’m not attached to capitalism at all, but if people really want to keep it while adopting something like a ubi, I’ve always found the concept of universal basic services to be a lot more sensible.
Housing, food, and rolling for-profit post secondary education into the public system would be big ones. Also, health care is universal but our system has blind spots. Dental is being worked on but optical is another. Pharmacare as well.
I’m not strongly against ubi, but I’ve always found the argument that injecting people with cash in the greater context of free market capitalism simply leading to things becoming more expensive pretty persuasive. You could match it with some kind of network of price controls but that seems like a lot of administrative overhead with the strong potential for unexpected outcomes. Now, I’m not attached to capitalism at all, but if people really want to keep it while adopting something like a ubi, I’ve always found the concept of universal basic services to be a lot more sensible.
What’s the difference between that wiki link and what we have already?
Only differences I see are a few things like free public transportation and a free municipal wireless network
Housing, food, and rolling for-profit post secondary education into the public system would be big ones. Also, health care is universal but our system has blind spots. Dental is being worked on but optical is another. Pharmacare as well.