Right, I'm with you, and I think you're probably right that fear of change is going to prevent UBI from being implemented, and that global warming is a good analogy in the sense that both would require massive international cooperation that isn't likely to occur. But if that's all you're saying, and you acknowledge that arts and social services grants won't solve the problems we're talking about, why propose them? Just as a sort of social placebo to comfort us all as we obliviously whistle our way towards the apocalypse?
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