Giving free money to a village increased their spending on food and medicine? And when you hand the money to women, they spend it? Riveting! Why didn’t we think of this before???
One thing to bring up with UBI, is although we’re discussing who we’ve giving the money TO (the unemployed and people who were getting assistance already) we have to address where the money is coming FROM. That is, if you’re eating free tacos and burning firewood, somebody else has to MAKE the tacos and cut the firewood, and hand it to you for nothing. Do those people also have rights and an economic welfare to worry about or just the recipients? If you had a village of 40 people this would become clear: if one guy is sitting around the fire eating, then some other guy has to hoe in the fields and cut wood all day. Meanwhile, in a functional system they would both be helping all they can.
But never mind, we’ve long since established that money is actually grown by elves on the Keebler money tree.
I bet you’re correct, the real reason for UBI is to quick-establish a digital-only world currency.
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