Nah, they’d all try to creep their prices up, but they already do that constantly. Public anger doesn’t keep them in check, competition does. Now I’m sure inflation would become a problem in the same way stimulus checks cause inflation, but that just requires increased taxes to balance – and that’s the real problem with UBI, congress would have to automate taxation to some extent and actually tax people.
Nah, they’d all try to creep their prices up, but they already do that constantly. Public anger doesn’t keep them in check, competition does. Now I’m sure inflation would become a problem in the same way stimulus checks cause inflation, but that just requires increased taxes to balance – and that’s the real problem with UBI, congress would have to automate taxation to some extent and actually tax people.