Scott Santens

So I say eliminate a lot of those tax expenditures and use that money instead for basic income.

that exclusively market the heck out of it and get it passed well so i don't think that that would pass i i think that that's appeals to a very specific segment and i don't think that that would be politically saleable the closest that is is charles murray and so charles murray's plan is to actually cash out everything and just provide people this um universal basic income and it actually it was asked of economists if they would approve of that

And it was virtually like no economist approved of that approach to the point where it was actually sold as being like, look at how many economists don't like basic income.

But they didn't like that version of basic income.

There's a lot of support for the idea among economists, but not that particular way of going about it.

I think Andrew Yang actually sold it quite well talking about it as a dividend.

I think that that helps people understand what it is.

And this full universality thing, that really helps people too, saying, look, this is not something for the poor.

This is for everybody.

And he would say that capitalism doesn't have to start at zero.

And that's what this is.

Instead of capitalism starting at $0 per month, it's capitalism starting at $1,000 per month.

I think it's a very simple way of looking at it.

And if you're looking at it as a dividend, then it's something that you have earned instead of something as being some kind of charity or something like that.

The only reason we're talking about UBI like we are right now to the degree that we are is because of this crisis.

This crisis is essentially what those of us talking about automation have been talking about.

It's just that the automation argument is something that takes place over a longer period of time.

It's like the proverbial slow-boiling frog kind of situation.

And in this case, we just immediately put the frog in hot water and people went, ouch.

That's effectively what we're doing right now is we're saying that, wait a second,