Having spent some time, again, in middle America, in medical crisis, in hollowed out retail serviced by elderly: universal basic income now. @scottsantens
Having seen the inattention of elites, an unaccountable government, a seething desperation that finds in Trump the most credible available salvation: universal basic income now.
Having seen a decaying infrastructure, a Kafkaesque existential vacuum, a total lack of agency, and a continuous barely scraping by, until the next gofundme: universal basic income now.
We need a new New Deal. Citizens have lost faith in our Union, because our national myth has become transparent, because there aren't enough youth to prop up the pyramid of Social Security and Medicare, because our middle class is increasingly in medical industry. UBI now.
Before the turning away from technology and science and a faith in progress for the common good. Before uncontrollable decline seizes us. Basic Income now.
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