Or pricing controls broadly. There is a reason why everyone has the same story of always having “just barely enough to get by.” It’s because we live in a carefully balanced system that has been refined through decades of pushing the line back and forth until the majority of people are paying exactly just as much as they can afford for everything without sparking revolts and riots.

I feel like they do this “trial” for UBI once in a while on purpose without other legislation to support it just to “prove it doesn’t work” so they can keep milking us like horseshoe crabs on a rack.