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-square241fedilinkarrow-up1338arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1309arrow-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-square241fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-squareorrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agothe “printing of money” has fuck all to do with inflation, and mainly comes from pop-economics that is stuck somewhere around mercantilism. Corporation simply realized that they are playing the prisoner’s dilemma with prices, and are now going for the “optimal solution”
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoHow do you figure you can increase the number of dollars in circulation, while shrinking the economy, and not have each dollar be worth less wealth as a result?
the “printing of money” has fuck all to do with inflation, and mainly comes from pop-economics that is stuck somewhere around mercantilism.
Corporation simply realized that they are playing the prisoner’s dilemma with prices, and are now going for the “optimal solution”
How do you figure you can increase the number of dollars in circulation, while shrinking the economy, and not have each dollar be worth less wealth as a result?