RE: Universal Basic Income.
It simply doesn't work.
Hasn't in the past won't in the future, yeah it works fine with ants and bees; they're under phenomenal hypnosis.
Human beings act in their own interests first. It's just the way it is. Allot of people on welfare will never get off.
Honestly I don't trust anyone who says they'll keep working and contributing to a system that takes more than it's fair share out of the working mans efforts and gives it to me because I refuse to play in that game, because if I did it would be me getting short changed.
Communism can't even function at gun point.
Yeah some people do get richarded over it's just the way it is with few exceptions namely people who game and own the system or at least have controling interest in the system; Rothschilds, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Astor, couple other old money families names I can drop. As far as the rest of us go we're not that bad off, we could live in Zimbabwe where they circulate stacks and stacks of 300M $ bank notes that aren't even worth the paper their printed on because the guy in charge didn't even take elementary economics.
Imagine that you gotta take a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a pint of milk not only because it's all you can afford but it's all that's available and instead you get mugged for the wheelbarrow because it's a tool capable of producing, it's worth more than the milk or the piles of cash.
They got a robot that'll flip burgers now and robo barristas, while I'm sure they'd have come out eventually the straw that broke the camels back was the non skilled labor demanding by force what wasn't due to them.