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When talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.

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Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

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orrk@lemmy.world
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the “printing of money” has fuck all to do with inflation, and mainly comes from pop-economics that is stuck somewhere around mercantilism.

Corporation simply realized that they are playing the prisoner’s dilemma with prices, and are now going for the “optimal solution”

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How do you figure you can increase the number of dollars in circulation, while shrinking the economy, and not have each dollar be worth less wealth as a result?

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because the value of money isn’t tied to the amount in existence, never has, even the rare metal backed gang is just extrapolating the value axiom by one

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