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Re:Expanded Child Tax Policy Slashed Child Poverty by User23 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:28PM (#30229447)
The real issue is that the ledger game is a dynamic system. Just because the currency issuer credits certain persons’ accounts in one round doesn’t mean that those accounts won’t sooner or later be depleted in future rounds. The obvious example is how a UBI will assuredly drive up rents as landlords move to capture the additional capacity to pay. Frankly, the day that UBI passes Congress will be the day the rentier class realizes this.

To use Taleb’s terminology, the rentier class have made themselves antifragile. Look how they’ve benefited from political chaos be it financial crises or pandemics.

Re:Expanded Child Tax Policy Slashed Child Poverty by CasperDern on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:48PM (#30229545)
This can argument can be made for all essential products/services, what you are arguing seems to be effectively UBI causes additional inflation, which may or may not be true.
Re:Expanded Child Tax Policy Slashed Child Poverty by zozbot234 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:37PM (#30229483)
Rents are set at the margin. If UBI recipients can move to lower-rent/lower-cost areas while keeping their UBI, there's no reason for rents to rise.