It's backed by nearly every major Silicon Valley billionaire, too.
Including Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who says Universal Basic Income is a way “to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently told the World Government Summit he believes it's inevitable that the U.S. will have to switch to Universal Basic Income: “I don't think we are going to have a choice.”
Venture capitalist Tim Draper proposes that the government pay everyone a Universal Basic Income using Bitcoin.
Even the “worse than Oprah” candidate I believe will win in 2020 has admitted that she's “thinking about it.”
This program will be sold to the masses as a good thing. As a way to rebalance America's wealth gap, and help Millennials.
Of course, they'll disguise it all under a different name.
It might be called a “Freedom Dividend” as one New York Democrat refers to it… or a “Human Security Plan” as Senator George McGovern called it in the 1970s… or simply branded as “A New Way of Living.”