JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months 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-squaremessage-square246fedilinkarrow-up1354arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1322arrow-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@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square246fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-squarebartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months 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-squareBorgDrone@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·10 months agoYeah, the socialist hellhole that is the Netherlands. Ranked 8 in the Index of economic freedom (USA is #25)
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·10 months 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-squarebartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoDepends on the location but most likely demand will be zero.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months 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!
Yeah, the socialist hellhole that is the Netherlands. Ranked 8 in the Index of economic freedom (USA is #25)
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??