You mean the generation that remembers what the USSR was like? I'm not being flippant, I'm being serious. The entire leftist political agenda, including Basic

You mean the generation that remembers what the USSR was like? I'm not being flippant, I'm being serious. The entire leftist political agenda, including Basic Income is basic marxism and the arguments for it are the same ones we had in over a century ago. We've had a century of experimentation with it, from Fascism in germany ("to protect our farmers") to communism in Russia to socialism in the UK to all manner of variations in South America. It hasn't worked. Why is it leftists who are always going on as if they're the only ones who care about the poor, refuse to learn the lessons of history and economics? History isn't a science, but economics is, and the reasons these things will fail are always pointed out-- as they were in this comment section-- and always ignored (as they were downvoted here on HN). As a result more and more damage is done. And when you see the damage the next generation of 20 year old leftists calls for socialism to fix the damage of socialism! So yeah, when you're over 40 and you've been around the merry go round once you see what's going on. OH, and by the way, one thing was constant- in all of these situations the people at the top profited. The politburo made out, and so that's why they support it. It's how they exploit the poor.