I've gone back and forth on #UniversalBasicIncome.

I was all for it when Andrew Yang came out with the #FreedomDividend, but then talking to one of my summer campers I heard about how poorly some folx who receive a UBI in the Middle East (Pakistan specifically) treat foreign national service workers - who do NOT receive #UBI.

That kind of turned me against it -- I assumed the popular belief that free money made you lazy and entitled was the actual fact.

But after reading that Fourier also argued for a #BasicIncome as part of his vision of fulfilling work, I realize this idea goes way further back than #Yang, and probably the problems I heard about were more due to having an alien underclass than assurance of income.

So now I'm back to supporting it. I don't expect to SEE it in my lifetime, but hey, WA State's unemployment during #coronavirus is kind of approaching it (you can get $850/wk! Crazy).