I feel that any lump sum of money that is going to be given to people will always make the market jack up the prices. We saw it happen with covid checks, people's landlord's demanded the entire thing. the "free market" has a cute way of deciding when things cost more.

I feel like deep structural changes need to happen for anything like UBI to make a difference. Do I think it'll happen? Most likely. it'll likely be a pittance of what is actually needed to survive and Politicians will make it sound like we are whining over free money when that gets brought up.