James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: To be fair, Ed, the left wing fights the solution too. The solution being > the unconditional basic income.. . . >
That is a little unfair to the left wing. The idea of an unconditional basic income has been around for a while, but people only began taking it seriously a few years ago. The movement in Switzerland is the first serious effort to implement it. The left wing knows that advocating it would be a tremendous overreach at present. The U.S. is a conservative country. There is no way an unconditional basic income would pass. The left cannot even get single payer universal healthcare. I do not know any Democratic politicians who thought that was a realistic prospect. If many European countries pass an unconditional basic income, and it works well, then there may a serious movement in favor of it in the U.S. At present it is Utopian. - Jed
