[gruez]

Rent is expensive because all the jobs are in expensive metros, so people are forced to move there. With UBI the idea is that some fraction of people won't have to work (or can do part time remote work), and therefore can move to a random town in North Dakota with cheap rent.

[vasco]

Other cool things cities have is police stations and hospitals, but I guess since there's no jobs you just get treated by a robot in the woods?

But then if people are creating art or working on their theater play or whatever, they'll want other people to show it too. I don't see cities existing only because of jobs.

[danaris]

This is an unhelpfully binary view of cities vs small towns.

I live in a village of roughly 5k people. The nearest city is 45 minutes' drive away. We have both a police station and a hospital.

[bradlys]

Ah, yes. Famously people only like cities cause there’s jobs there. They’d otherwise live in a place where the population density is 5/mi.

[gruez]

It's not a pleasant place to live, but beggars can't be choosers.