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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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.
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Wouldn't it make more sense for governments to offer free education and living stipends for people actually engaged in retraining in fields where demand exists, as opposed to providing wages universally.
As it stands right now, the government very heavily subsidizes education. The solution should be to encourage people into sectors of high demand, by funding education in those sectors and cutting funding in others. Giving people a guaranteed income, and then allowing them to do whatever they want doesn't seem efficient.