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human
CMV:A Universal Basic Income is an unsustainable proposal which will degrade social services and justify poverty

I understand that job scarcity and income inequality are pressing issues which need to be addressed. However, I fail to see how a Universal Basic Income would solve these. If anything, I see this as a move which would relieve corporations of the duty to provide people with jobs so they can sustain themselves. And while I understand that it aims to eliminate poverty, couldn't it have the potential to worsen it as well? If people *want* to work and be productive but complain that they are unable to find work, wouldn't some (of course, not all) companies just retaliate by saying that UBI is already in place and therefore people don't need to worry?

I've also heard that it would be ridiculously hard to implement a Universal Basic Income due to the cost of such a program. Even if each person in the United States was given $1000 a month to support themselves, that would amount to a cost of roughly 323.5 billion dollars a month. That's over half of the total U.S. military budget in all of 2015, and keep in mind that's only for a single month out of an entire year. How would this be any better than the government urging companies to create more job opportunities, therefore pressuring them to share some of the burden of employing people?
gpt
You seem to think that if Universal Basic Income would be implemented the money would somehow go somewhere. 

The money isn't being "spent", it's not disappearing - it's in the hands of prospective consumers. People with more money to spend usually spend more money. 

Higher spending power among the population stimulates the economy and creates more demand for goods and services - creating jobs in the process.

The real job killers are companies using cheap foreign labour and hoarding trillions in overseas tax heavens, removing it from the domestic economy.