S2E74 | Think About Universal Basic Income

I find myself drawn to contemplate this curious notion that has captured the imagination of our age: the idea that every citizen might receive money from the state without condition, without labor, without the ancient bargain that has governed human society since we first traded grain for pottery. Universal Basic Income, they call it, though I wonder if anything truly universal exists in our fractured world, and whether income divorced from effort can ever be truly basic to the human condition.