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The way I see it eventually we probably will see something like a universal basic income but it will intersect with the time when property prices become truly unaffordable for anyone but the very wealthy. At that point you will have a system where a class of landlords are being propped up by public money and funded by the renters - who need jobs because the UBI will all go on rent because of demand. Perhaps rents will even exceed UBI in some areas. |
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Bring in a UBI and fund it with a tax on landlords. |
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I find the concept of UBI nice on the surface but super sinister underneath. It'll be dystopian slavery. |
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There's got to be some kind of broader shift eventually, like the transition away from feudalism into industrialised society as we know it. Ultimately things simply can't carry on the way they are or capitalism will cannibalise its own source of income and implode. |
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The biggest problem with the housing market regarding access is |
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The UK used to have a rent control so the price was capped by the government. Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s ended this when she was prime minister, by abolishing the Fair Rents Act. |
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I don't want to own a home. Seems like a real pain in the arse. |
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What if we socialised mortgage lending/housing supply. |
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ratio-chinese-US-wages.png >>5261 |
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The solution is, once again, for the government to do it instead. |
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Thanks, lads. That's bleak enough and credible enough that I'll stop being surprised and start being depressed. |
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960x0.jpg What if we tied UBI to a state sanctioned digital currency like China has? The adjustable currency expiration date seems like a useful feature for boosting consumption when the economy needs it and we could even control what people can buy or how much individual currency is worth at a given time. The total lack of privacy or need for banks seems like a vote-winner too in catching benefit cheats and druggies while the public respond well to flash sales and last minute deals. |
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