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Region: Lands End

Buryasia

Phorbus wrote:The UBI is useless.

Disagree.

Phorbus wrote:I mean you can just print money and give it to people, but what you can't print is resources. It's not really contributing that much other than raising inflation.

True, but what about a country that already has widespread resources? Distributing currency to citizens allows them to access said resources.
I'm sure we're not there yet, but most sci-fi writers either envision a dystopian future, or one in which the wealth of nations is shared in some way.

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