Dollars are claim checks on other people’s resources, very often on their time.
You can’t just give a bunch of dollars away without either incurring an offsetting amount of time/resources to back them, or to devalue them and their siblings.
If you like food with your meals and your garbage hauled away, at the end of the chain, someone has to work to get that food to your table and the garbage away.
(I’m generally pro-UBI, but can’t figure out how to pay even a subsistence level of UBI in a sustainable way, and certainly not enough that would allow a leisurely life for most.)
You can’t just give a bunch of dollars away without either incurring an offsetting amount of time/resources to back them, or to devalue them and their siblings.
If you like food with your meals and your garbage hauled away, at the end of the chain, someone has to work to get that food to your table and the garbage away.
(I’m generally pro-UBI, but can’t figure out how to pay even a subsistence level of UBI in a sustainable way, and certainly not enough that would allow a leisurely life for most.)