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CertainMiddle2382 t1_jea2o8h wrote

Reply to comment by Dyeeguy in How do you guys actually think UBI will work? by MelodiGreig

People spend far more for leisure than they do to renew their work potential.

If so the most sold car in the US would be a Daihatsu and not a F150 and planes would be empty because people would be spending all their money on math courses.

And that money put into non productive activities will have troubles moving away, because by definition they are non productive activities.

Nobody is paid to go to Disneyland, and everyone has to pay, astonishingly.

People will vote with their money, and what they want will inflate away…

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Dyeeguy t1_jea4bzj wrote

I have no clue what you are saying. People will want to go to disneyland when they are provided with UBI? Why don't those same people go to disneyland now with their basic income from their job

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CertainMiddle2382 t1_jea6sia wrote

Everything happens at the margins, the people who are working now and can’t afford going to DL will want to go if UBI allows them to.

And they are much more than DL can accommodate…

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Dyeeguy t1_jea7d0e wrote

So the point of UBI is to give a basic income to live, not give people disneyland money

But it would also be great if people had money besides that LMFAO. You trying to paint it as a bad thing is one of the funniest responses I have seen to UBI. People have more money to spend on entertainment = more entertainment is created. They can make Disney planet

You are scared of a future where people are not living paycheck to paycheck, and can spend money on leisure? You think that is not sustainable?

Please dude, you have been brainwashed badly. Society doesn't have to be that way, there is no lack of space or resources on earth :)

instead of trying to maintain the current shit system, we can improve things :)

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CertainMiddle2382 t1_jea8lpi wrote

You are mistaken, there is actually a huge scarcity of ressources on this planet.

US lifestyle is not scalable.

And of course UBI will allow people « not to live paycheck to paycheck », it is just that people think 1$ of UBI will allow them to buy the same as 1$ of today.

It is not, RV parks wont get bigger by UBI, Disneyland either, there won’t be more shoreline on the lake either.

UBI wont change a single thing to that apart making people who have the good stuff already even richer…

You can’t control what people are going to do with their UBI money, apart if you distribute it as coupons, like in the USSR or SNAP.

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