Hello, I’m not that informed about UBI, but here is my arguement:

Everyone gets some sort of income, but wouldn’t companies just subside the income by raising their prices? Also, do you believe capatilism can co-exist with UBI?

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Iirc the places that tested ubi found that people kept working for the exact reason you said. I forget if more people got jobs or not.

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      9 days ago

      I read about a pilot program in Canada back in the '70s or '80s that found that fewer people on UBI had jobs, but those people who left the workforce were overwhelmingly new mothers and older teens who were still in school.