If we're being honest and responsible, until that employee has found other employment. Sure, it'd grant some people poorer than the average HN reader a signifi

If we're being honest and responsible, until that employee has found other employment. Sure, it'd grant some people poorer than the average HN reader a significantly more reliable safety net along with some mobility and autonomy, but how quickly do you think it would take until the corporate sponsors started championing a program that benefits everyone, like medicare for all? Things are bad for a lot of people, and maybe my thinking is old fashioned, but the health of a nation isn't a game of winners and losers that needs to be run like a casino.