18th February 2020, 6:32 AM
A universal basic income would mean the need to tie your financial well-being to another person as in marriage would be moot. It would also allow people in abusive relationships otherwise utterly stuck to pick up and leave any time they wish. The wishing part is trickier admittedly. Yang wasn't my choice, but I am grateful he brought UBI into the public conciousness. It's probably going to be the last thing we as a worldwide society do, the thing that makes us go full on post-scarcity.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)