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Re:Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All by firic on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:29PM (#17853254)
"Good" land is scarce. If you were to propose price control only in unwanted land then that law wouldn't do anything because the price there is already low. I was referring to wanted land, ie. land where price control would do something
Re:Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All by Retric on Monday August 27, 2018 @06:43PM (#17855152)
I suspect people that are on basic income for longer periods might have a different view of what “good” land is. But, more to the point we already do what your talking about via affordable housing. It’s a large waste of resources, but hardly casusing the kind of inflation spiral your talking about due to how it’s implemented.
Re:Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All by dllthomas on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:52PM (#17853443)
I would note that a basic income directly increases the amount of land "sufficiently close to sufficient income".