Stockton, California to Try Universal Basic Income

When utopia has been imposed, no one will need a job, because everyone will receive a universal basic income. Recently bankrupt Stockton, California illuminates the path to our work-free future:

[Mayor Michael] Tubbs is coordinating an effort to test a new way to sustain residents: universal basic income, or UBI. For one year, several dozen Stockton families will get $500 a month, no strings attached.

Dorian Warren co-chairs the Economic Security Project, which is contributing $1 million to the initiative. He said the goal is to gather data on the economic and social impacts of giving people a basic income.

In addition to tracking what residents do with the money, Warren said they will be monitoring how a basic income affects things like self-esteem and identity.

There was a time when it would have destroyed self-esteem. Nowadays, many people don’t have any pride to lose, partially as a result of deliberate efforts to destigmatize parasitism.

The hope is to demonstrate UBI’s potential and encourage other places to give it a try. UBI has recently gotten a boost from Silicon Valley moguls concerned about income inequality and the future of society…

To get it through the soft skulls of the leftist kooks in nearby Silicon Valley that society would have no future if everyone where paid merely to exist with money confiscated from the last few suckers willing to pull the cart rather than ride in it, Stockton ought to offer the UBI to everyone in town. The population would immediately explode with bums from every corner of the country, and Stockton would be back in bankruptcy.

That is exactly what would happen to the USA if it adopted the UBI. Actually, it is already happening as a result of the welfare state, immigration policy, and largely undefended borders — just a little more slowly.

Tubbs thinks the UBI experiment will show that Stockton’s best bet is to invest in its own people.

“Invest” is liberalese for flagrantly wasting other people’s money. Past bright ideas embraced by the drunk-driving Michael Tubbs include paying Stockton residents not to shoot each other.

On a tip from Artfldgr.