Universal Basic Income is written on a table at the World Economic Forum annual meeting at Davos, Switzerland, in January 2018. When an idea stirs the popular imagination, pundits and politicians find it hard to resist.
Never mind if there is no evidence to support it. Never mind if closer scrutiny suggests putting it into practice will be counterproductive or plain impossible.
What matters is the platform it provides for its champions, the energy it generates and the votes it wins. Brexit is one example. President Donald Trump ’s Mexican wall is another. And I would add a third: universal basic […]
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