[lajr]

Why isn't the conversation more focused on Universal Basic Services than Universal Basic Income? I feel like it deincentivises inflation due to UBI, and incentivizes governmental optimization (if the goal is to provide everyone with food and housing, then you can optimize it, whereas just giving out money doesn't cause any optimizations to the services they will purchase).

A great book that touches on this distinction is Fully Automated Luxury Communism (https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury...). Basically it argues that it is more beneficial and less expensive to provide UBS.

[asdff]

Because convincing society to unhinge profit from living expenses is far more difficult of a prospect politically in this country than even handing people money directly.