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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

"people who want $1000 a month UBI don't seem to realize their rent will go up $1000 next month." Decommodification. We are post-scarcity in many areas, but are still getting charged for it because of commodity and profit-motive.