[devmor]

So you believe that the entire driving factor of the consumer goods market would mysteriously disappear if people had enough money to not worry about missing rent?

[direwolf20]

Rent is defined as unearned income attracted by a dominant market position. If we wanted people to afford rent it'd be more efficient to set rent to zero by fiat.

[devmor]

I agree, but UBI is far more likely to come to fruition than eliminating the majority of the US's largest asset-based speculative market.