I feel like most of the negative points are missing the mark slightly. For instance, a UBI that cuts Social Security, Medicare, and disability insurance isn’t what most people are clamoring for. I think instead a massive tax on corporate profits aided by AI and automation (ie, a "robot tax," though I hate that term) is how most people envision that going down. But I’ll leave the line-by-line debunking to someone else.
The problem is that the author is so focused on these lazy hippies that don’t want to work. I don’t think that’s really the whole point of UBI. […]
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