https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
We need to fix wages, not provide handouts. I'm for helping people that need but UBI isn't the way to do that.
Because if what you're saying is true..with any unnatural gov't interference ...there will be inflation.
(which is inaccurate by the way)
> yes, the cost might be some inflation, but predictions of inflation have lately failed
For a time, anything may remain out of sync. But you can't get more money from less workers. You can't redistribute to provide UBI, you have to print it, and that devalues the currency.
Even sillier, most UBI proposals are tied to a consumer index, such that when the currency was devalued you would print and distribute more, but with zero concern for the actual workers whose salaries are not also being inflated to match. Eventually the premium for working will be small enough that you'd be a fool for having a job.
And of course "predictions of inflation have lately failed". Because nobody is giving out UBI on a large enough scale. It's suicide. Even tax-and-spend bread-and-circus providing pols still want to be in power next year, so there's a limit to what they can print, and how widely they can distribute it.
If UBI becomes a right, and you raise a generation who doesn't need to work, what do you do when there's a recession? Cut UBI and watch the riots start? Or drive off the cliff at speed because the non-working class can't be denied?
In year 1, Bob has extra money. By year 3 Bob's rent goes up. Did Bob's UBI go up proportionally to his rent? After a few years, Bob ends up in the same place - unless we keep injecting more money over time, which creates inflation.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/958854717/modern-monetary-the...
> The money, [...] the treasury, which prints little game tickets you can use to make other people dance for you.
They think there's a printer somewhere, and some jerk sitting next to it who just won't print enough money. If only he'd print more, we'd all be billionaires!