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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
I think it is a fairly large assumption on your part that a UBI will cover this.
I just don’t see it as a sustainable option in any event. As money funnels into fewer and fewer hands there will be less and less incentive for the “haves” to support the “have nots”
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No it’s not. What does someone need to re-train? Primarily, they need to be able to afford to do so and the time to do so. What does UBI provide? Enough money to live and the time to go back to school. I don’t see how it’s a large assumption to say that, given they’d have money covering living expensives (food, shelter, the “basics”) that people would be able to work part time in addition to their UBI to cover the cost of schooling.
And I don’t get your second point. UBI literally funnels money into more and more hands, not into fewer and fewer. We’re talking about giving the population are large enough money to live. It literally remakes the entire landscape. The rich will still be rich, and the poor still poor, but the relative understanding of that would be unrecognisable.