[JulianMorrison]

Universal Basic Income and decriminalization of drugs and single payer universal healthcare would go a long way towards making the whole criminality arms race dry up and disappear. Desperation, as a constant social background hum, would largely stop.

[stef25]

Poverty, social misery and drug addiction no doubt leads to lots of petty crime but hostage takings and illegal immigration is not going to get solved with UBI.

Decriminalisation of drugs (Portugal) would not negate the need of going after importers and large scale dealers.

[JulianMorrison]

Full drug legalization with standardized safe supply would make importing it as negligible a business as moonshine running.

To solve illegal immigration, UBI has to be extended globally - and then the border can simply be taken down.

[stef25]

Lofty ambitions, won't ever happen.