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Much as we might agree these workers overall have more money - from whatever source - it does not follow that the pay would go up for crap jobs. The pay need only be high enough above the post tax increase from the UBI baseline to fill the spots. Maybe it won't they populated by people who need to feed their family anymore, but perhaps by college grads who need to feed themselves because UBI is eaten up by their student loan repayment. All we can guarantee really is shifting the bracket of the likely talent pool's need for a few extra dollars. Humans aren't alike in the level of income above which they're no longer in desperation for a few extra bucks.


At low wages (effectively starvation wages in many cases) there is a huge incentive to show up for work.

With a UBI there is less incentive due to hunger but those same wages look much more attractive. There is still an incentive to work.

The money for the UBI does imply that profits go down, taxes go up (a mixture).

But importantly those workers, previously on the edge of starvation, will start consuming services initiating a virtuous cycle. That is the theory.

But a sensible housing policy (hello San Francisco) is very important or landlords will simply hover up all the surplus.


I mean, it's the law of diminishing marginal utility. Money earned on top of UBI would be worth less than money earned on top of nothing.




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