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  • In the UK, the only warning system we have is receiving a text message. And even that is a hit or miss because only half of the people I know actually received one when the govt was testing the system a couple years ago.

  • Here's the thing I don't like about UBI though.

    If the govt pays out, say 500 bucks every week into my account as part of a UBI payment, what stops landlords from just increasing their rent, or supermarkets and local utility monopolies from raising their prices just because they can?

    At that point, you're back to square one, and still under threat of being homeless and starving just because you've been priced out of the market. Additionally, UBI will only exacerbate the problem of wealth inequality, as while poorer families will be using the payments to pay for necessities they need to survive, wealthier families who straight up don't need the extra help will just use it to accumulate and horde more assets, on top of receiving increased profits from all the poorer families putting their entire UBI payments towards affording their increased prices.

    What we should be doing instead, is providing universal basic services. Free housing, food, water, electricity, transport, healthcare, education, guaranteed work, and so on. Everything you need to live a basic subsistence, provided at little to no cost to everyone who needs it with no strings attached. From there, if you want additional luxuries like a bigger house, vacations abroad, etc, then you would need to work, but you won't be fucked if there happens to be no work going around.

  • To where? The ocean?

    Undersea cables connect the UK with the rest of the EU's power grid, even going all the way to Norway.

    I don't see any reason, other than political, why a similar system can't be engineered in Australia to connect its power grid to Papa New Guinea, New Zealand or Indonesia if it hasn't already.

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