UBI is very great. The real risk is not inflation, but not enough stuff or any of that other bullshit. The real of UBI is that the work ends up being distrusted highly unevenly, as we birfurcate into poor by not destitute happy do-nothings and rich happy workaholics, and the sometime later the latter group decides to cut off the gravy to the former.
(Sure that is a long ways off, and that's why UBI is a fine first step on it's own)
Shortening the work week forces the work to be more evenly distributed, which might bumb out people in the short term if they already had UBI, but is best for the long term.
At this point I think UBI is the best solution we have.
I would prefer other things, but UBI is simple enough that I think it could work.
EVERYWHERE online, people are complaining about the epidemic of houselessness. it sucks for everyone.
For the businesses that have to deal with the people our society has abandoned. For the people being forced to live on the streets.
At this point we have a choice. Give the unhoused access to subsidized healthcare and housing, or accept the permanent shanty-towns like we live in a 3rd world country.
I favor both. Let's knock the work week down to 36 hours, and let's replace some of our social programs and tax credits with a (small, to start, but universal) UBI.
This works the problem from both ends: it supports employment and wages by reducing the supply of labor, and it still betters the situation for those who are most negatively impacted by shortened work weeks.
The way to get UBI is to first replace all Social programs with the negative Income Tax. You solve the social problems, you stop the welfare trap, and you put the economy on the Path to a UBI.
Until we replace all social programs with something better, less corrupt, UBI will never work
