Liu’s fourth book is a spirited argument for the global adoption of universal basic income as a means to relieve the economic inequalities of capitalism.
As the author, a retired research biochemist, points out, a version of a universal basic income was first proposed by Thomas Paine in 1817 and has again become a hot political topic since Andrew Yang made it the centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2020. The crux of the idea is alluringly simple: a uniform sum of money is directly disbursed monthly to every citizen above a certain age, a payment that is entirely unconditional […]
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