I just finished reading the book "Raising the Floor," an argument in favor of universal basic income written by former SEIU president Andy Stern's book. It's a

I just finished reading the book "Raising the Floor," an argument in favor of universal basic income written by former SEIU president Andy Stern's book. It's a worthwhile read. This article just sounds like some cross between anti-UBI propaganda and defeatist nonsense. Stern addresses many of these issues. But -- more importantly -- he argues that our economy will become more and more automated over time and jobs will go away and simply not come back. So we need to figure out some way to have an egalitarian society in a world where overall productivity is high but need for workers is low. It's a big shift. I'm not sold on UBI as the sole solution, but it seems like a good place to start looking for ideas. Apparently some places that already have some form of it (like Alaska!) have seem some successes. And apparently the United States nearly passed some form of UBI legislation in the 70s with the support of none other than Richard Milhous Nixon. As a part of this change, I do agree that we're going to have to loosen some of our moral aversion to people not working full-time jobs all the time. There's a lot of good you can do for yourself and the world if you're not obligated to give all your time to some menial day job.