Both the left and right like to pretend that evolution never happened to humans, in various ways. That’s interesting. Mental self-protection against atavism, I guess.

Note: not a defense of current terrible evo psych BS.

I don’t think progressives should completely drop whatever else they are working on and concentrate solely on a universal basic income, but that if it were achieved would probably do more general good in this nation than any other single cause.

We’ve already passed the point of a large proportion of the working-age populating being unable to find jobs – these people are just hidden, lost in the numbers as you aren’t considered “unemployed” unless you are actively looking for work.

Nearly 15 years ago on my old blogs I was routinely made fun of for claiming that in the future, 50% or more of population would be unable to find a full-time job of any kind.

We are nearing that world now. No longer is that idea laughed out of the mainstream as it was then. I’ve watched it move from crackpot to loopy-but-possible to now beginning to overtake and infiltrate mainstream economic thought.

A Universal Basic Income in the future will be the only way to prevent society from complete dissolution. The UBI, or something much like it, is really the only alternative.

“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
―Joan Robinson