Federal UBI and no minimum wage or any other subsidy to anyone.

But that’s not going to happen, so it depends what benefits me and my closet tribe members. Currently I’m in a high cost of living area with very high minimum wages, so I’m for high minimum wages.

> it depends what benefits me and my closet tribe members. Currently I’m in a high cost of living area with very high minimum wages, so I’m for high minimum wages.

If I could make a suggestion, don't do that.

What benefits the tribe's leaders is not the same thing as what benefits the members of the tribe. Elected officials want a larger tax base because once they have enough to provide a basic level of services necessary to prevent the population from revolting, the excess can be diverted to cronies. What that means to you is that you and yours pay more for housing and have a more wasteful government; it's not a benefit to you. Not fighting against it would tend to raise your cost of living by increasing competition for local resources.

But also, that mindset is poison. Once you admit to a willingness to be inconsistent for the benefit of tribal conflict, you're no longer engaged in good faith negotiations. You're making a declaration of war against your own countrymen. Then it's might makes right and the strong taking from the weak. And they don't stop at the other tribe. Put kleptocrats in power and they don't just steal for you, they steal from you. If that's not what you want, you have to refuse what causes it.

> Federal UBI and no minimum wage or any other subsidy to anyone.

> But that’s not going to happen

That's what people say about everything, until it does.

But it doesn't happen on its own. If you want something you have to work for it.