Don’t you see how sales, marketing and products are all being geared to the super wealthy now? That is all I do with my company, gear everything to the top .5% and hope to make huge margins on low volume.
The same thing will happen across the board. There will be a bare minimum for us, while the rich will buy all the products at an overinflated price.
A cash grant would let people decide what do with the money.
But among both liberals and conservatives there is great distrust of freedom.
If you give every one $10,000 a year for life, no strings attached - the politicians will lose a voting bloc.
And we can’t have that. The opposition to a guaranteed income has nothing to do with socialism or social Darwinism but simply because powerful people don’t want to relinquish their control that comes with money.
That control over people is more important to them than ensuring people can live as they choose or to effectively reduce poverty.