grte@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 9 months agoPeople get out of poverty faster with a guaranteed livable income says Ontario senatorlockwww.aptnnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down17
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minus-squaretoxicbubble420@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up26·9 months agoevery UBI study has had positive results, but let’s run a few more just to be sure…
minus-squaregrte@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·9 months agoWell the interesting thing about this article is that it’s about a pair of bills, one in the HoC and one in the Senate, to implement a program rather than a study.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoThere’s a difference between pilot programmes and full implementations People can’t afford things as is and companies raised their prices just because so imagine how they’d feel with the excuse of UBI The flip side is they raise prices anyway so you might as well have UBI
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months ago The flip side is they raise prices anyway so you might as well have UBI Exactly! They raise costs to increase profits even when their production costs go down due to automation and other system streamlining.
every UBI study has had positive results, but let’s run a few more just to be sure…
Well the interesting thing about this article is that it’s about a pair of bills, one in the HoC and one in the Senate, to implement a program rather than a study.
There’s a difference between pilot programmes and full implementations
People can’t afford things as is and companies raised their prices just because so imagine how they’d feel with the excuse of UBI
The flip side is they raise prices anyway so you might as well have UBI
Exactly! They raise costs to increase profits even when their production costs go down due to automation and other system streamlining.