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This is true if you look at a single flight in isolation, but it's not true if you look at an airline's businesses as a whole. When they're able to salvage costs, it means that the financial risk of running flights like that is lowered and they will continue to run them in the future.

All demand for flights, even when you pay less than the cost of the seat, increases the supply of flights and increases climate change. As Scott says, you might be less culpable for your flight's emissions if you pay a cheaper fare, but you're not non-culpable.

What about the hedonic treadmill? If the UBI is universal, then everyone gets more spending money and the standard of living will go up so poor people will feel that they "need" more things to have a "normal" life. Won't any future increase in the UBI be eaten up by marketers?

The book The Spirit Level presents a bunch of statistical evidence that even rich people are worse-off in an unequal society.

So how would people who are too disabled to work fair?