> If it doesn't work, we can always just go back to letting people starve. Elderly people already get a UBI in the form of Social Security, and that's politic

> If it doesn't work, we can always just go back to letting people starve. Elderly people already get a UBI in the form of Social Security, and that's politically impossible to cut regardless of whether it's a good or bad idea. Once you turn it on and people get used to it, you can never turn it off in a democracy.