• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    6 days ago

    I could imagine that society being full of all sorts of different problems than the current one.

    For example if people moved away from cities it would be a huge negative impact on the environment.

    You would also have a new underclass that simple lived off assistance and refused to work. The costs of living would probably also skyrocket such that whatever basic level of income you set would be the new poverty line.

    The problem with assumption is that UBI must only do good. It won’t. It will have all sorts of negative effects on top of the positive ones. An easy one to foresee is people taking their UBI and gambling it away.