About Basic Income and Rents.

I had a brief interchange with some twitterers about BI and rents a few weeks back, before I stopped responding. You know what I mean, millenial idiots who just keep repeating the same thing over and over, ignoring its refutation. They can’t concieve that they might be wrong; you must be too stupid to understand.

I wrote this, intending as a final refutation of their brain bug, and to clarfy my own thoughts about it. Then I forgot about it over Christmas. It is worth a read by people interested in the practicalities of a Basic Income, instead of as an ideological hobby horse.

December 2020

I have got into another of these twitter debates in the past two days. I generally avoid them because they are so futile. They usually start when I make a comment to these interested in that topic, to correct some type of misinformation. I do not particularly invite any response from the author of the misinformation.

What I often get is a kind of pile on from people repeating the misinformation like it is a received truth and not processing what I said. I usually end by explaining the facts of the matter as clearly as I can within the limits of the Twitter format and then blocking any further responses.

Sometimes the experience motivates me to write a short piece explaining the matter, and blogging it. So it is with the little piece of nonsense from a couple of days ago now, about how Basic Income will solve the problem of high rents and shortage of rental units in most…