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by amanda99 501 days ago
You will never generate enough money from information about your consumption to fund your consumption. Obviously there's other data, but you get the point.
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UBI isn’t meant to fully fund consumption. It’s “basic” income such as rent or groceries. I will accept that consumption data doesn’t cover consumption and that the value is already priced in but I don’t accept that it has no value or that UBI is meant as complete income replacement.
I guess I was responding to this:

> everyone can sell it to make a living just doing whatever they are doing everyday