The left’s favorite utopian scheme is hitting a wall of reality. Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs, long promoted by progressives and Silicon Valley billionaires as a silver-bullet solution to poverty, are failing spectacularly, and even their own supporters are being forced to admit it. Put simply: studies consistently show if government pays people to do nothing, they end up choosing to then do nothing, and the free money does not increase their quality of life. According to reporting by Kelsey Piper highlighted by The Argument and summarized on Substack by S. T. Karnick, multiple gold-standard scientific studies, randomized, controlled, and large enough to remove doubt, show that UBI simply does not work. Piper argues, “Homeless people, new mothers and low-income Americans all over the country…
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