Re:A basic income experiment in Kenya
by DougN7 on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:02PM
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There might be enough milk and cereal to go around. I don't think there is enough housing, medical service and transportation (in the US). So those things will all go up in price. However, everyone should be able to afford those necessities so I'm not sure what the solution is. Limited resources is a very tough problem to solve.
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In the US as of a few years ago, vacant homes outnumbered the homeless around 5:1.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/vacant-houses-outnumber-ho...
I think ~1 car per adult is enough transportation for everybody. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-automotiv...
Half of produce in the US is thrown away. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-...
Healthcare is certainly lacking in the US but other countries with far lower GDP per capita have somehow managed to give everyone healthcare.
I think the vast majority of necessities are not really particularly scarce in the US and there is easily enough at the very minimum for i.e. absolutely zero homeless and starvation.
Just for info, I live in Europe and health care is almost free for everyone, but most of the time the quality is terrible - if long waiting lists (sometimes longer than your expected lifetime), lack of most medication and having 2 patients in a single bed is what you think "somehow managed" means, then you are right. There is no free meal, but somehow people tend to ignore that.