A businessman gives money to a man to illustrate universal basic income. By Atstock Productions/stock.adobe.com Our modern use of the word “utopia” came from Thomas More’s work Utopia, published in 1516. Utopia is Greek for “no-place,” so some scholars interpret More’s novel as satire. Utopia and the concept of dystopia (“bad-place”) remind us of how unattainable a society without ails seems. Some believe universal basic income would be a step toward a genuinely equal, prosperous society, a “ eutopia ’ (good-place). What is universal basic income? Would it lead to a dystopia or move us toward an equal society? […]
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