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Re:The deep roots of modern resentment by bduerst on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:20PM (#13534208)
Coincidentally, housing prices (buy/rent) are income-elastic and one of the criticisms of a blanket UBI, not just minimum wage.
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Re:The deep roots of modern resentment by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:24PM (#13534846)
Did anyone compile a list of ways to handle this problem? I'm all for UBI, but this feels like a show-stopper, and I don't know of any workaround.
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Re:The deep roots of modern resentment by mac01021 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:07PM (#13535736)
The market will solve it if the number of housing units is large enough compared to the number of families, provided no one vendor owns too large a fraction of them.

It seems pretty wasteful, though.

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Re:The deep roots of modern resentment by bduerst on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:38PM (#13534963)
Not that I know of. Traditionally it has been handled by attaching spending restrictions to the income assistance - e.g. food stamps, medicare, unemployment, student loans, etc.
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