Re:Universal basic income seems to improve employment and we...
by skocznymroczny on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:16AM
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If it's not enough to live on for free then it's not an UBI. The B in UBI stands for basic, it means that it covers all the basic needs, such as housing, food, electricity. One might argue that things like entertainment or internet wouldn't be covered by UBI because it'd be really basic, but I assume few years of activism would change that with actions like "internet for everyone, let's tax the rich to pay for it".
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Re:Universal basic income seems to improve employment and we...
by spyckie2 on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:34AM
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> If it's not enough to live on for free then it's not an UBI.
This is either very poor wording or just plain wrong. UBI is a cash grant policy, nothing more. The intent is to increase overall standard of living of the poorest people in the US more efficiently, not to make everyone have the same high level of standard of living for free.
It's a policy, not an ideology.
In respect to that, I already mentioned that 12k is enough money to live but your standard of living is worse enough to be visibly felt.