Universal Basic Income is nothing but socialism.
If the Government pays everyone’s income, the Government tells everyone what to do. The Universal Boss.
It is a solution, in search of something (anything) to justify it - a cure worse than the disease.
Let everyone own robots. Let everyone figure out how to make their own living with them.
“Let everyone own robots. Let everyone figure out how to make their own living with them.”
Sort of a “40 acres and a mule” strategy for the 21st century?
The problem for the author is that it isn’t socialist enough. That’s why he goes on for workers to “own the means of production”