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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by empressplay on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:23AM (#11619299)
You can't "import" housing though. And businesses collude all the time.
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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by rhino369 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:50AM (#11620592)
I think UBI is untenable until we hit some Star Trekian post scarcity economy.

But if people could decouple income from location, people could move to cheaper housing. There are free houses in Detroit and Baltimore because there are no jobs and that area sucks. In a UBI-topia, people would leave Sf and move to Baltimore.

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