And I imagine if you start giving middle class people making 60k, 70k, 80k an extra 12k a year they'll start to warm up to the idea. Will it directly make the world a better place to give them more money? Not so much, but if all of a sudden they're far more receptive to the idea of raising UBI to 2k a month then that'll be a hell of a thing.
And all those working class conservatives might actually shut up and start taking a hard look at how much they're actively opposed to socialism/democratic socialism/whatever. Plenty of those people wanted to fight tooth and nail against Obamacare but once they got it and then their politicians tried taking it away they lost all that vim and vigor real ****ing quick.
Even a thousand bucks a month could be a serious game changer as far as public opinion goes.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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