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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social • 57 days ago

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Enormous, judgmental bureaucracies are also more costly than they're worth. Un-means tested programs are more cost-efficient if they're designed well.

scottsantens.com•57 days ago

Yep. Means-testing and conditionality are corrosive to democracy.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12767

carlnyberg312.bsky.social•57 days ago

Starting point:

• Cap cost of housing
• Provide single-payer healthcare
• UBI
• Cut spending on government oppression: military, police, prisons, sheriffs, intelligence/surveillance

kurtpaints.bsky.social•57 days ago

I love the idea, but it's still don't understand how it doesn't immediately become absorbed into inflation. Very open to having someone explain this to me.

scottsantens.com•57 days ago

Here's something I wrote to help with that.

https://www.scottsantens.com/would-unconditional-universal-basic-income-cause-inflation-ubi/

kurtpaints.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you

davidgraeberinst.bsky.social•57 days ago

@scottsantens.com is the best to ask for the more in-depth analysis and advanced questions like you have.

axelorsolini.bsky.social•57 days ago

UBI could only ever be a bourgeois scam under capitalism. You will be obediently waiting for your scraps like a dog. They will make you their whore

diogenesofsynapse.bsky.social•57 days ago

If a UBI launched in America it would be stagnant like minimum wage

ginsu.comintern.social•57 days ago

UBI without price controls on basically everything would just result in an immediate spike in prices. UBI is $1000? Rent everywhere is going up by $1000.

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