I think we have a weird attitude to work. The western employment rate is about 50%. 50% of people don't do any form of paid employment. The truth is, we've jus

I think we have a weird attitude to work. The western employment rate is about 50%. 50% of people don't do any form of paid employment. The truth is, we've just accepted that a big proportion of the population are allowed to opt out despite not having paid in. Sure, some of them are kids. But most aren't. So we engage in this weird exercise and pretend that for every 10 people, there are 5 workers, 2 deserving unemployed and 3 dirty slackers who lack motivation and should probably be whipped. Excuse my fun hyperbole. A UBI is just a more honest approach. It treats everyone the same. It doesn't bother forcing unemployed people to pretend they're disabled or that someone a month before their 65th birthday is lazy but someone a month after it is "retired"...