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Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by jedberg on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:19PM (#32653953)
Economists are still divided on the subject. So far localized experiments in UBI have not caused localized inflation, but it's hard to tell since it's small scale.

I'm not so sure it would actually happen though. We already give support to a lot of poor people through various programs like EBT and Medicaid. This just converts that help to cash, which gives people more freedom on what they want to spend on.

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Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by JackFr on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:39PM (#32654166)
The problem with UBI experiments is that it hasn’t been U. If it’s localized and small scale it’s obviously not Universal, which makes it hard to draw conclusions.
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Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by yellowapple on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:01PM (#32655002)
It's also rarely B, either; I don't know of very many (if any) such experiments where the income was sufficient to live on.
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