Most discussions around Universal Basic Income assume that giving everyone an unconditional cash floor provides baseline survival security. But in an economy with inelastic, financialized housing, cash transfers run directly into a structural dead end.

Whenever a city's purchasing power increases, landlords and private equity trusts adjust residential rents upward to capture that exact margin of surplus. Without a decommodified baseline of shelter, a $1,200 monthly dividend simply becomes a $1,200 monthly state subsidy to property owners, leaving the tenant on the exact same treadmill.

Cash is fungible and liquid; physical shelter is fixed and non-substitutable. In our open-source legal research, we’ve been modeling dynamic usufruct under civil land trusts: you have absolute, inviolable possession of your living unit as long as you occupy and maintain it, but title remains in an indivisible civic commons. It cannot be mortgaged, securitized, or rented out for profit.

If we want basic income to deliver actual freedom rather than subsidizing real estate appreciation, shouldn't securing non-market housing precede or accompany any cash transfer model?

Hi all, I am from India and the situation is very bad, the working class is getting squeezed due to inflation and a bad economy. We are the youngest country in the world but we do not have any job for its youngsters, no social security. Most Indians are just one terminal illness away from poverty.

Meanwhile, Due to AI the industry which employed most Indians has started laying off people. The jobs market at this time has to be the worst.

I think the in late stage captialism countries like us will suffer the most

I haven’t checked on this in a while, is there anything new, beyond the endless studies, trials, etc?

Hey, you know the technology that's

• driving up the cost of basically everything

• consuming ungodly amounts of electricity and water

• reporting net losses of billions of dollar per quarter

• stealing from artists and writers

• powering scams, social media bots, grotesque mockeries of human art, and synthetic CSAM

• teaching a generation of young people that cultivating a craft is a waste of time and energy

• already decimating the job market

• known to have the potential to end humanity according to its developers

• being developed by some of the most irresponsible, selfish, arrogant, and foolish human beings on the planet

• and depends on a complex and fragile supply chain through dozens of countries ending at a single town in Taiwan that makes all the chips it needs to function (which China has promised to invade in 2027)?

It's going to save us. Because once the billionaires and trillionaires use it to extract all the wealth from the whole world, they're going to get really generous and share it with the rest of us.

Sign so me and my disabled friends can leave America and find a better life aboard currently am in the process of getting a job so i can move there myself but in doing so am actively trying to better my life and eat right and start to recover from disability although i might not full recover i want to act as a beacon for hopes that Europe will treat me nicer than America.