Universal Basic Income?

NoahL said

In my personal opinion if you can't afford to live an average life in a first world country off of the average salary then there is a fundamental issue with your system and it is up to the government to either lower the living cost or subsidize some of the costs.

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The thing is, people in this age have a very warped perception on what a normal/ average life is or what it should be. A lot of people consider average as owning an average home, owning a nice car and having nice things. But the truth is, that isn't sustainable for every person on the planet and if every person in every country lived like this we would run out of resources very quickly.

In an ideal world people wouldn't even own cars as the public transportation system would be good enough for everyone to use. And as for home ownership for ideal reduction of carbon footprint the average home would be 500-800 sqft. So in reality anything more than this for 1 person is technically living outside for their required means and as such can be the cause as to why everything is so unaffordable because everyone wants to live above the average. It's not bad to have goals but the reality is in order to have an average there has to be the vast majority of people living at that average.