#Basic Income

Basic income is the carrot offered by the state in the flimsiest disguise of equal coins, a divine gift to those who shirk, and a slow-acting toxin to those still tickled by toil. It advertises social justice while cunningly cultivating the marriage of dependency and idleness. The promised funding debate lurks like a trapdoor, its cost endlessly postponed to unborn taxpayers. Theoretically guaranteeing fairness, it pirouettes on the fingertips of politicians. A utopia on paper, it often proves to be a bureaucratic mirage.