The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Mark Hendrickson: Mark Zuckerberg’s Call for a ‘Universal Basic Income’
• Stephen Moore: Climate Change Hypocrites
• Rich Lowry: Can Wonder Woman Just Be Wonder Woman?

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Opinion in Brief

Mark Hendrickson: “[Mark] Zuckerberg … enthusiastically espouses the progressive doctrine of meliorism — the doctrine that it is the federal government’s role to make life easier for Americans, whether by making it easier to vote or easier to afford whatever they want to do. To accomplish the latter goal, Zuckerberg proposed a ‘universal basic income’ (UBI) whereby the federal government would disburse the same living allowance to every adult American. … The glue that holds a society together is the social division of labor. We already have the problem of more than 10 million healthy men in their prime years having dropped out of the labor market. They consume wealth that others have produced without making any contribution to the production of wealth. A UBI would facilitate such lifestyle choices, leaving us with a society in which those who work bear the burden of supporting those who choose not to work. If you have to ask, ‘What could possibly go wrong?’ then you don’t know history. Spiritually and psychologically, for grown men not to have to strive to overcome challenges is to leave their potential untapped, their character undeveloped, and their sense of purpose and fulfillment unknown. What a waste. Two things I have observed in my lifetime: 1) human beings need to work; and 2) easy lives can be tragically blighted lives.”