WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Please donate to keep ReaderRant online to serve political discussion and its members. (Blue Ridge Photography pays the bills for RR).
I think in the light of increased unemployment it is silly to train people for jobs that don't exist or won't exist shortly. Should we train the indigent to be servants and bed-warmers for the (increasingly fewer) well-employed? Grind them up to make Soylent Green?
The whole idea of a UBI is that there are a bunch of people who are just going to collect for their whole lives with few job prospects.
The zoning laws are written to keep the upper and middle classes happy, but if most voters are poor should the laws change? We could allow housing like dorm rooms, with tiny spaces for residents. That would be much more practical than Tiny Houses which are relatively expensive to build and have few places to go. (I have studied them a lot.) At the very least we could create trailer parks designed for Tiny Houses and create a few standard government-built models to give to the poor.
This is the free housing I see for my "minimum income" program. You could also build community kitchens where they could be supervised cooking for the community, taking turns to earn some cash.