It’s a new progressive fashion: a push for a “Universal Basic Income” (UBI) in America.
Like many leftist concepts, it sounds new, but the idea has actually been floating around the US since the 1960s . And, like a bad Christmas sweater, regardless of how old and dusty it is, the concept is being pulled out once more, and repackaged as “new” — a re-gift that can save the world.
In fact, the folks at Bloomberg Businessweek just published a piece by Claire Suddath exploring in rather selective and glowing terms an experiment in UBI being conducted in Finland.From the start […]
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