UBI gives you "moving expense money". Greedy landlords gives builders incentive to build more to give you alternatives. If you don't want to work, then moving to smaller communities is a more affordable choice, and you can move before you have a job lined up. A problem with welfare/UI is not just that any job income get's clawed back at 50%, but you need to stay close to the same welfare office to keep getting benefits.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure what you're saying.

If landlords can assume every tenant they'll ever see has 2,000 plus their income, then they can just set rent to be 2,000 plus the average income of the area (or whatever it is they do currently). That's what I'm worried about.

Like, I'm worried about inter-landlord collusion that happens not because they're talking to each other but because they can all assume the same facts about you.

I mean, truthfully, I think landlords should be cut out of the game anyway, but that's a wholly separate issue.