>If you want, make two different currencies. Some basic gov't scrip for necessities - housing, food, shelter, closing, and you can use BTC or whatever for your rich people shit and pay as much as you want for collectible shoes or whatever catches your fancy.
If everyone has equal or unlimited rent money, then the apartment goes to who ever pays asking price (or rent controlled price) plus gifts the cosplaying landlord the "collectable shoes".
That "rich people shit" becomes the differentiating factor in otherwise equal cash prices/offers. It's inseparable.
How does the "two forms of currencies" currently work out for things like EBT/SNAP benefits or section 8 housing? Scarcity doesn't disappear, it just gets shifted to other mechanisms besides cash.
>People will largely not care because they won't be literally starving and dying from lack of access to physiological necessities.
We've been beyond that in the US for a while now, to the point of obesity epidemic.
Free education, free school meals, free home and weekend meals, free SNSP/EBT on top of free school meals, free health insurance, free housing vouchers, free phones/data,
Any necessities not being met in the US today is due to neglegent parenting, not lack of resources.
> Any necessities not being met in the US today is due to neglegent parenting, not lack of resources.
The data doesn't lie: there is still childhood hunger and homelessness in the US.
You can play the blame game and say the parents should do a better job of navigating a clunky and hostile bureaucracy, but while we're doing that, children are going without food and shelter. Is that an outcome we're willing to accept so we can point our fingers and say the parents were wrong?
If everyone has equal or unlimited rent money, then the apartment goes to who ever pays asking price (or rent controlled price) plus gifts the cosplaying landlord the "collectable shoes".
That "rich people shit" becomes the differentiating factor in otherwise equal cash prices/offers. It's inseparable.
How does the "two forms of currencies" currently work out for things like EBT/SNAP benefits or section 8 housing? Scarcity doesn't disappear, it just gets shifted to other mechanisms besides cash.
>People will largely not care because they won't be literally starving and dying from lack of access to physiological necessities.
We've been beyond that in the US for a while now, to the point of obesity epidemic.
Free education, free school meals, free home and weekend meals, free SNSP/EBT on top of free school meals, free health insurance, free housing vouchers, free phones/data,
Any necessities not being met in the US today is due to neglegent parenting, not lack of resources.