Best case scenario is they will be entitled to so many square meters and the government will decide where those are. People in receipt of UBI will be moved to the boonies and used to populate underpopulated areas. You'll get your new address in the mail one day and that will be that. Single people will live in communal dorms and share a kitchen. Families will live in family dorms and share a kitchen. This will be touted as a greener, 'decarbonized' way of living. Canada will have finally 'progressed' to the 1970s soviet union.
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"will be moved to the boonies and used to populate underpopulated areas"
That is a great idea, except UBI is a dumb-ass idiotic idea that obviously leads to communist Russia concrete identical apartment buildings. But dumping 400,000 refugees randomly into Toronto and Vancouver every year is also idiotic.
Somebody please suggest to me, how can we fix our perfectly good old rural ex-logging, ex-fishing, ex-mining, ex-grain-elevator towns by restoring their populations to normalcy in a reasonable manner?
You can't.
My area of expertise, ex-grain elevator towns as an example. They closed due to the new and improved massive concrete inland grain terminals. That was a loss of 8 solid, well paying jobs in every single town that had a wooden grain elevator. Now, that doesn't sound like much, but it really is in a small town.
Losing 8 roughly 65k a year jobs in a town of 500 people means you just lost 3.2% of the jobs in town (assuming half the population is of working age). On top of that, farmers aren't driving into town anymore to sell their grain. So the farm supply store decides to move to the town where the grain terminal is. Oh, you just lost another 6 jobs and another business in town.
Farmers aren't stopping at the restaurants, and neither are the 14 people out of jobs who moved for work. Restaurants, gas station, and the local bank branch/credit union are losing some business. They all let go one or two employees each.
There's a ripple effect throughout the whole town, and a quarter of the town over a period of time moves for employment. The town now doesn't have enough kids to justify there being a school, so they get bussed over to the next big town. There goes teacher jobs. Town too small for an RCMP detachment, more jobs gone.
Add in that farms are getting larger, and less people are farming, so yeah, the farmer is making more money, but he needs less equipment, and one rich dude isn't helping out the local economy as much as 25 moderately well off individuals.
You end up with an empty husk of a town, with a gas station trying it's best to hold on, and none of the residents actually work there.
Throwing more people into an area without an economic development is just going to lead to an exodus of people.
Economies of scale are probably super similar for fishing, mining, and lumber. It's not an old man and his son on their fishing boat anymore, it's massive ocean trawlers. The new ones have the fishing processing factory on the boat below deck. It's wild. Also means those towns don't have a fish processing plant, and doesn't have those jobs. Leads to the same problem as the agricultural one.
Unless there are already available jobs in those rural towns, moving people there would be a fucking nightmare for everyone involved.
welcome to the concentration of wealth, the elite want you fighting over scraps while gorging on fine dining at your expense