I broadly agree with the points made by the author but I still wish he hadn't written them. Where rhetoric, examples and logic would do the trick, he resorts to snark, hyperbole and personal attack. If he wanted to be a paper-tiger villain for fans of UBI, he succeeded admirably because every argument he's made can be shot down by inspection. Which is not to say there aren't plenty of arguments to be made. He just resorted to name-calling and fantasy instead.
Exactly. All you need is basic math. To quote myself: What else does anyone need to know, except maybe that we just passed a bill including tax exemptions on purchases of private jets? The rich aren't forking over a damn dime, and they're unquestionably holding the reigns right now. Let's promote universal basic skepticism.$12,000 per person (for every U.S. citizen) = $3.8 trillion (annually).