I don't know how anyone could have a problem with UBI

I don’t know about how well we’re able to even build urban infrastructure anymore. I lived in a big coastal city for a few years and it would have been great if they’d build lower cost high rises and invested more in the subway system, but there was just too much corruption and NIMBYism.

They’d build a few low cost public housing and shove them in the middle of middle class neighborhood, but it’ll of course it didn’t help anyone except the same people who will never work anyway and could have easily been shoved way out in BFE since they didn’t have a job nearby. Anyone who even made a shitty salary with tons of school loans got no help, just spent all their money in overpriced non-subsidized apartments.

Nobody will build anything but luxury housing and half of them sit empty because they are bought up by foreigners, or they’re used as AirBNB.

The subway was always having problems. Same issue as the unions refused to ensure their employees actually worked hard, things were always late, building new lines was tens of millions over cost and years late.

At this point I say we screw the entrenched interests in big established cities and let people Stewart building up their own communities in smaller cities and big towns all over the country. We’re gonna end up with electrical cars being what wins out in the US - not trains like in EU or Japan. We’re too big. Just need to build up the electrical grid and infrastructure, fiber lines to every area in the US, and force companies to allow any worker who can be remote to work where he/she wants as long as it is in some community without job growth.

Enough with all the jobs in one of 30 huge cities that are increasingly too expensive for each new generation with huge commutes and no communities.

/r/lostgeneration Thread Parent Link - i.imgur.com