Comment by throw2016
9 years ago
With the current explosion of neoliberal and libertarian extremists UBI is nearly impossible to pull off in this country, but hats off for trying. There has to be some value in at least trying something.
It's everything they hate, stealing money from their worshiped 'supermen job creators' to give unearned handouts to 'lazy others'. These ideologues care about 'society' only in as much as facilitating 'great individuals'.
The kind of hate campaign that will be launched to stop this in its tracks if it becomes anything more than wide-eyed utopianism will be unparalleled in history. Any so called experiments will be sabotaged with prejudice and fail.
> With the current explosion of neoliberal ideologues
Did I fall asleep and wake up back in 1992? Because in 2017, neoliberalism had been in decline for quite some time in the US, losing influence in both the Republican and Democratic parties (not, of course, to the same alternative in each.)