I see that a UBI would help in the short term, by getting cash in to the hands of people who don't currently have cash. But it doesn't do anything to solve the systemic problems we have. Internet and telephony companies are still oligopolies that charge huge extractive sums of money for digital services, our food production system degrades the environment, and health care prices are out of control.
Yes, we absolutely need to get more wealth into the hands of regular people, but setting a fixed income from on high doesn't do anything to change the power structures that led to so many people being disenfranchised in the first place.
To me, there is a problem when power is concentrated in one place, and remote megacorporations flood the market with goods that won't last but are so cheap most people (irrationally) choose them. The end result is that those in power have no connection to consumers except as sources of money, and people and the environment get treated as disposable.
I see the solution as something more like what the New Economics Movement has been talking about, which has a big focus on local businesses. What do you think of this video?
Yes, we absolutely need to get more wealth into the hands of regular people, but setting a fixed income from on high doesn't do anything to change the power structures that led to so many people being disenfranchised in the first place.
To me, there is a problem when power is concentrated in one place, and remote megacorporations flood the market with goods that won't last but are so cheap most people (irrationally) choose them. The end result is that those in power have no connection to consumers except as sources of money, and people and the environment get treated as disposable.
I see the solution as something more like what the New Economics Movement has been talking about, which has a big focus on local businesses. What do you think of this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDw4dZLSDXg