JackGreenEarth to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year 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-square189fedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1249arrow-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 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square189fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-square@bartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilink0•1 year 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-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink-1•1 year 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-square@bartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilink0•1 year agoDepends on the location but most likely demand will be zero.
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink-1•1 year agoSo I don’t get my million dollars a month??
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??