A UBI literally doesn’t cost anything when it’s financed from capital. Alaska has had a small UBI for decades financed from natural capital, and it doesn’t cost them anything.
A UBI financed from capital ownership create a fair distribution of capital compensations. The current distribution is way unfair and it causes structural problems to the economy.
If you believe that 1% of the population should own 50% of the stock market, that 10% should own 90% and the rest basically nothing, that housing should be unaffordable, that we, in general, shouldn’t own anything, that we should live under a fucked up […]
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