[lyu07282]

This is kind of like social security, medicare or the 5 day work week, if everyone suddenly had $x more disposable income per year? Landlords and grocery stores and everyone else would raise prices because they know people can afford it.

[bryanlarsen]

And UBI would give people the freedom to move to a place with cheap rent and groceries. Rent is high in places with jobs and low in places without.

Supply and demand will work better, lowering prices.

[lyu07282]

These people would argue against the weekend on economic grounds too if we didn't have it already, everything seems unimaginable until it becomes real. Its like trickle down economics, you can make the "economic" argument fit whatever you want to appeal to the oligarchy.