Message from @Eno_
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andrew yang has been poppiing up on my youtube
i think he points to real issues but not sure ubi is the best thing
The main problem with UBI, is that the market adjusts to take it into account.
After a few short years, everything has changed in price, and price inflation means the UBI dividend is useless.
yes... tim pool said the same thing, inflation basically
Yes, exactly what Tim said.
they will have to raise it, it's basically an alternative to minimum wage, which is useless too
and in the short term minimum wage seems to be harmful too
imagine not taking the yangbux to build Ted Shed 2: No electric boogaloo
I would argue UBI is actually way worse than the minimum wage, because it causes massive government deficient and wrecks the economy, all in one fell swoop.
well it has never been tried on this large a scale but i don't volunteer to be the first
They tried a pretty large trial in Finland, and it was shown that the only benefit from the program was that the people involved were "happier".
Fairly obviously, getting free cash makes people happy in the short term lol
over time is important too
10 years
i used to be for ubi/bernie
pre 2016
They thought it would, but it had no effect on jobs in the trial.
i didn't vote for trump in 2016 but i probably will in 2020
yeah
it is not different from welfare for unemployed people
the difference with ubi is everyone gets it
welfare does not encourage employment
although welfare *discourages* employment by being afraid to get your welfare taken away if you get a job
which i think is why i supported it
i suppose it doesn't play out in the short term
but i think inflation seems like a problem that could occur
Ideally welfare should be seen as no more than a safety net to stop people literally starving to death.
yeah
UBI is pretty much just "hey if you vote for me, I will give you free money".
There is no real indication it works as an actual policy.
yeah
UBI won’t lead to inflation if it doesn’t change aggregate consumption, i don’t think
Which a VAT tax could avoid
VAT would lead to inflation