If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse.” Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to continue living in peace and safety.
And I have no qualms telling you, that is the wrong choice, and you have been brainwashed by this destructive, exploitative system.
I support a basic income guarantee, but c’mon, this is embarrassingly simplistic.
‘If we give away food and homes for free, we’ll drive down the price of food and homes until producers of those things stop producing those things; the end result will be shortages of those things’ is an empirical claim, not a normative one. It’s not saying ‘money matters more than living beings’, it’s saying ‘I don’t expect this to have positive consequences for living beings’. We should be trying to figure out whether or not this is true, not condemning people who raise it as a possible objection.