Re:Germany’s hidden hunger
by gambiting on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:45AM
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If that was true, we wouldn't have poor jobless people living in the city centres - why be poor and jobless in a city centre, if if you can be jobless and slightly less poor outside of the city, surely there is no functional difference? But humans are not automatons, they don't follow perfect logic.
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Well, on UBI, stupid people may end up propping rents in expensive locations.
Less stupid people would move to a location where UBI will allow comfortable living for them.
People may end up not so stupid. Imagine you live in SF, you've got $500 UBI while your rent grew $300. This leaves you with extra $200 of leg room, yay for UBI!
Because subsidized housing is located in, and funded by, the city (at least where I live). There is no option to move somewhere cheaper and keep the subsidies.
I'm not sure that is the case in Germany.
We often require jobless people to be able to prove that they are looking for work, harder to do this if they are living somewhere cheap but far away from potential employers.
For me, UBI would need to have an expectation that people may have to move around a bit as it is introduced, they would have a choice on where to go though.
Re:Germany’s hidden hunger
by oneweekwonder on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:14AM
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> why be poor and jobless in a city centre
Condensed space with a lot of working class people... Best place to beg.