[neilwilson]

"With UBI, you get money. You can spend it on whatever you need or want"

As long as you have a slave class doing the producing who are forced to take your money. Otherwise you just get inflation because you haven't added anything to the supply of production side.

[dsr_]

If your mental model is based on a single self-sufficient town plus outlying farms that does no trading and never improves their technology, I can see how you would come to that conclusion.

But that's not the world we live in.