The documentary Free Lunch Society makes the concept of a guaranteed, unconditional source of income for everyone on planet Earth sound like a capital idea, but Austrian filmmaker Christian Tod skirts too many potential pitfalls, setbacks, and oversights that could turn such an idea into a reality. It’s a documentary that provides a basic overview of the subject, a laundry list of reasons as to why an unconditional basic income is beneficial to the world economy, plenty of examples of the theory working and in action, a smattering of dissent, and a near total ignoring of the larger social […]
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