Solarpunk

When I was creating a Star Trek expy, this was how the Federation worked: there were a lot of universal basic services, and one of the governmental departments looked to expanding what services qualified as UBS and looking maintain and improve state offerings so they are competitive to commercial offerings.

UBS would still be prone to corruption and exploitation, but its absolutely a viable bridge towards post-scarcity communism.

As a note, clothes, laundry and hygiene would need to be included in a starter set of UBS. I suppose if UBS and UBI came together, and the program would seek to add common UBI purchases into th3 UBS category.

There are a lot of American cities who would disagree with that regarding public housing.

The initial buildings were fine enough, but they required maintenance and that maintenance would usually be the first thing cut in cases of budget issues.

I think The Expanse had a good idea vision of a society with just UBI but keeps all of the other capitalist trackings. It's not good for those people.

One thing to keep an eye on as far as services is to make sure they're used by all classes of people. In the states there's public housing but it's seen as inferior (and usually is actually inferior). So only the poor use it, which means it has no powerful defenders. And for most people who already own a home, they would never consider getting rid of it to move into public housing.

One advantage of UBI is that everyone gets it, so everyone will have an incentive to defend it. Think about social security - every so often politicians talk about how we might need to cut, but that would be political suicide because of how many people are invested in getting that payout.

Both.

We need both.

There is more to life than basic services, but these should definitely be provided for in a non-profit way.

I think this is the better move overall. With a monthly stipend companies will quickly start charging more for the same product just to get a taste of all of that money going to the population. They'll call it inflation again, and we'll all get fucked. If the services themselves are free, they can't inflate and fuck over the lower class as easily.

They still will.

It'll just be slightly less convenient.