• LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Let’s plot it out: Who would be eligible for the affordable housing and food? What will we do to make sure it’s affordable? How will people get it?

    Do you think that all people ought to have a place to live and enough to eat? If so, one appeal of UBI is it’s simple (compared to alternatives) to implement. Everyone gets it, and each individual can sort out the details.

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        1 year ago

        I wasn’t asking those questions as a gotcha, when we talk about this stuff I like to think through how the implementation would look.

        For UBI the federal government would pay it. It would be perpetual. If someone wasn’t receiving the payment presumably they could file a suit, although it would seem unlikely to be an issue since it’s pretty straightforward. Unlike means tested benefits, it’s not complicated to determine who would be a recipient.