@Alon @DiegoBeghin @MisuseCase @kentwillard I argue that we should think of UBI as place-based policy, because cost-of-living means a UBI equal in nominal terms is much more valuable in rural and exurban places. Like social security, it would leave places in some sense "less competitive" — less desperate people won't compete to wages as low — but I think that's a plus, not a minus, in welfare as well as social and political health.