JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.message-square94fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square94fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-squarebartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoYou must live in VENEZUELA or some other SOCIAMIST HELLHOLE! Americans have the freedom to literally arbitrarily raise the rent to whatever they like YEEEEEEHAW!
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoOkay let’s say I own a condo and I’m renting it out. I raise the rent to a million dollars a month. What happens next?
minus-squarebartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoDepends on the location but most likely demand will be zero.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoSo I don’t get my million dollars a month??
minus-squareBorgDrone@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoYeah, the socialist hellhole that is the Netherlands. Ranked 8 in the Index of economic freedom (USA is #25)
You must live in VENEZUELA or some other SOCIAMIST HELLHOLE!
Americans have the freedom to literally arbitrarily raise the rent to whatever they like YEEEEEEHAW!
Okay let’s say I own a condo and I’m renting it out. I raise the rent to a million dollars a month.
What happens next?
Depends on the location but most likely demand will be zero.
So I don’t get my million dollars a month??
Yeah, the socialist hellhole that is the Netherlands. Ranked 8 in the Index of economic freedom (USA is #25)