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This is different though. If my rent is $2000 a month now, and I get $1000 a month from the government, the landlord can make my rent $3000 a month on renewal. Yes the money is going into the economy but it is enriching the upper class instead of helping the folks that need it.

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fishos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And you’re still gaining services you didn’t have before. People who couldn’t afford a dentist, for example, now can. You need a whole different set of laws to tackle wealth inequality. We can do both.

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- deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  And you’re still gaining services you didn’t have before
  
  No, you’re not. In they example they just provided, nothing has fundamentally changed because the money you were given was eaten up by price increases, leaving you exactly where you were before.
  
  Because UBI isn’t like a stimulus check. Stimulus checks are temporary. With UBI, every single buisness, creditor, and landlord knows for a fact everyone’s monthly income just went up across the board, so they know they can safely raise prices without pricing out customers.
  
  That’s the fundamental problem with UBI: it only works if it’s coupled with strong price controls and regulations to prevent price gouging, and can be rapidly adjusted if necessary. Prices can go up overnight, pay raises can be acquired over a pay period, but the UBI payout will not be as flexible.
  
  Look how impossible it was to get the minimum wage raised from $8.
  
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  - GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Here in the US, minimum wage is still just $7.25. I don’t think they are going to do anything about it anytime soon. We have a hard enough time rallying people to slow rise of authoritarianism
    
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  - fishos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Minimum wage is $15 in my state, so wtf are you talking about?
    
    Landlords pay taxes on their property. Pay utilities. They dont have “every need met” or they wouldn’t need to charge rent in the first place.
    
    You’re just arguing that the system is too broken fix. Which is even more reason why we should instead of shoving our heads in the sand.
    
    But nah, too haaaaaard. Grrrr. Bad people will keep being bad so no point doing good. Grrrr.
    
    Fucking loser.
    
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