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Are you in support of UBI? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 day ago by Zeon to c/asklemmy

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

If so, what’s the purpose of the money?

Barter and trade will always be part of humanity unless we somehow manage post-scarcity. Money is so far the best way we've found to manage and track the value of things for that system.

If people are choosing to buy things, that’s a free market

No, it's just a market, and even then that's not a guarantee at all. It could be that people just trade money for valuables amongst themselves, or other systems I'm too stupid to conceive of

If people are forced to buy specific things, it’s not really buying

Yes, it is? Its only not buying if you don't trade money for it, ie the government sending it to everyone for free

If people are free to buy certain things but new people aren’t allowed to enter the market with new products, that’s just worse than capitalism.

Good thing that's not anyone's suggestion