Interesting article, and a good mind-expanding summary of various options and history. TL/DR: > Basic income is to the social state what the flat tax is to th

Interesting article, and a good mind-expanding summary of various options and history. TL/DR: > Basic income is to the social state what the flat tax is to the tax system. It flatters the engineering mind with its apparent simplicity. But in fact it is impossible to implement; it’s also politically suicidal; nobody’s ready to die for it; and even if it existed, it would probably trigger extraordinary political tension and the highest level of inequality in modern Western history.