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Shouldn't the goal be to provide universal services first?(i.e. transportation, education, healthcare, and housing). I would like universal income but my fear is that companies could just raise prices.
Idk the discussions I have read about are basicly UBI to replace unemployment benefits, while not cutting stuff like public transport, healthcare, education and housing. The big advantage is basicly that unemployment forces you into work as soon as possible, whereas UBI allows for experiments, including the option of building something up yourself and it takes away a lot from the power hierachy in businesses. If you can just leave your job freely and be fine, then it is much more of an option. A lot of unemployment benefits do not work, if you just quit your job.
On the one hand, it seems more practical, but on the other hand, infrastructure takes FOREVER to put in place and my lifeblood is gushing out of my wallet in the current time.
That's one thing I don't understand. Infrastructure is always too expensive and takes too long but around where I leave some companies just put up 3 building in about a year an half and sold every single unit. I have my doubts about the quality of the apartments but still, they are there. In the mean time not a single public student residence was built or even started (I live near the university).
It's one thing to build a building on land that you own. Universities do commonly build new residences, academic buildings, stadiums, etc. Why it didn't happen in your town idk.
Public transit projects take forever because:
And probably a lot of other reasons I can't think of right now.