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$750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they spent it on is more evidence that universal basic income works. (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would it? Or would the egg companies just collude to increase prices opportunistically?

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's just called ~~being insatiably greedy, antisocial, profiteering, opportunistic sociopaths~~ "Rational Self-Interest!"

We have always been at war with Eurasia, after all.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago

I mean they still might but the value of the US dollar would go down.