News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? Stockton, CA Is Fir... by modeless on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:49PM (#17190487)
> everyone can afford a little bit more now.

This is not true. UBI doesn't create money out of nowhere. It redistributes existing money. Poor people can afford more, and rich people can afford less, because taxes increase.

Re:Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? Stockton, CA Is Fir... by pmiller2 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:03PM (#17190655)
Rich people spend less relative to their wealth and income than poor people do. That means more people are going to be buying more things, increasing demand, which... raises prices.
Re:Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? Stockton, CA Is Fir... by modeless on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:16PM (#17191351)
Sure, the same is true of anything that increases the incomes of poor people. There's no reason to believe that the price increase would cancel out the entire benefit of UBI.