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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.
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The only assumption you’re making is that there will be a part time job for them to actually work to help pay for their upgrading. I’m not saying there necessarily won’t be, however without having a crystal ball to see how fast jobs will be eliminated I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that there may not be enough available part time work to allow for this.
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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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It was alluded to earlier but when you give everyone the same fixed amount of income you aren’t increasing anyone’s economic mobility, you’re just shifting their starting point or “rock bottom”. If a UBI is meant to cover the basics then that money isn’t staying with the poor, it’s going to their landlord, the grocery store, etc.. Meanwhile the people who are receiving the money from the poor in exchange for these services also receive their own UBI. Unless the UBI includes room for more discretionary expenditures the money received would essentially be used in the same manner as food stamps, but food stamps only help to boost economic mobility if you also have additional income that they are providing you an opportunity to spend/invest elsewhere.