Re:Did Finland’s basic income experiment work? [video]
by rskar on Sunday February 03, 2019 @09:23AM
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https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Consumer+...
"The class of persons able to buy goods and services other than those that satisfy their basic needs. ..."
The efficiency of this process is the whole argument on why capitalism is superior to other systems.
Subsidies and other special favors distort this process, to the point of overproducing things that are not needed and underproducing things that are. The danger I see is that UBI is exactly such a subsidy.