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A better method is to give everyone a universal basic income enough to afford a place to live and to eliminate the minimum wage. That way jobs would have to pay what the job is worth to people, not amounts that create a poverty trap.



The real estate industry would need significant overhauls before tying it to UBI. A minimum wage increase based on inflation would be vastly easier to get done politically in the US and even that bare minimum still hasn't happened yet.




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