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Against Universal Basic Income - Alexey Guzey 

Appreciation
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Importance
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Date Added
11.27.25
TLDR
Inequality often means the hierarchy of social status. UBI doesn't solve this central problem. Also, means-tested programs are better than UBI.
2 Cents
Made an interesting, short read. Point 1 and 2 made sense, point 3 seems like a stretch. Point 4 (further references) has nice links!
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One problem is inequality of wealth. In theory, this is simple to solve, we just give people money. If we don’t have enough money to give people, this is unfortunate, but long term growth, trade and neoliberalism will mean there is more to go round. This misses the bigger picture though. People are very poor at identifying disparities in wealth, their perceptions are very far from reality, and so addressing this is unlikely to allay frustrations. When people talk about inequality in society, they are really talking about the hierarchy of status.

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Redistributing wealth does little to address inequality of status, and may even make the problem worse. While making money yourself confers status, being given it doesn’t. …

The further reading references are really interesting, particularly this reddit thread !