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IMO the only viable way to something like UBI is an automation-driven supply-side surplus. Not that "everything will be free", but that marginal costs can be pushed close enough to zero that nobody really cares about counting pennies to worry about it. Salt and pepper used to be substances worth fighting wars over, but now they largely sit in unused shakers on restaurant tables or packets thrown away with disposable silverware. Sugar is similar.
Which isn't to say there won't be disruption, but the existing mechanisms suffice to allocate nicer apartments and such in the short term. Something like 50% of the population worked in agriculture as recently as last century, but the tractor didn't lead to mass unemployment, nor is basically anyone dying of starvation in the West for inaccessibility of calories.
My personal take is that human touches are going to become status symbols: they already are, to an extent ("bespoke", "hand-crafted", the marketing image of "organic"), but there is certainly a lot of room to spend more there. And I'm not sure that's all bad: people in my life really seem to appreciate when I give them things I've made myself. There seems to be meaning to be had there, I think.
Sounds to me like you just push up the price of scarce goods like housing in areas close to services without the antisocial.
I didn't say it was a good plan, but it seemed more practical than something top-down. Largely because it's what is already happening.
That said, we should, like, build more housing. NIMBYism is one of the obvious pitfalls there.
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