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<title>Universal basic income is a dangerous delusion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As artificial intelligence drives fresh excitement in the tech world, major figures such as Elon Musk are reviving an old political fantasy: universal basic income. The idea has drawn support from a strange coalition, from progressive politicians like Andrew Yang to libertarian thinkers like Charles Murray.To its advocates, UBI is the obvious answer to a future in which machines displace human labor. But beneath the sleek language of innovation lies the same old welfare-state promise: material comfort in exchange for dependence. Its supporters speak as though it were the natural companion of progress. In reality, it threatens to rob millions of the work, structure, and purpose that give life meaning.UBI attracts supporters for very different reasons. For Andrew Yang and others on the left, it promises relief from poverty through guaranteed cash transfers. For Charles Murray, it has represented a simpler and more streamlined alternative to the sprawling welfare state. For Elon Musk and many AI boosters, UBI solves the problem of those with too little cognitive ability to compete, left behind in an increasingly IQ-based economy. Their motives differ, but they share a revealing assumption: that UBI is an inevitable response to progress rather than a political choice with deep moral and social consequences. In each case, the individual is treated less as a citizen with duties and aspirations than as a materialist problem to be managed.Welfare for allA version of UBI basically already exists in the United States. With the vast web of interlocking welfare programs offered by the state for things like disability, poverty, child care, minority status, and educational attainment, most people can find a way to qualify for assistance with food or housing. It might not provide a comfortable or desirable life, but if someone doesn’t want to work to survive in America, they often do not have to. For many people, the state has become not a temporary backstop but a long-term provider. That arrangement may keep some households afloat, but it has not produced a flourishing class of free and self-governing citizens. It has more often produced dependence, passivity, and bureaucratic management.The case for UBI made by many AI enthusiasts bears a familiar resemblance to the old socialist dream. Human labor may become unnecessary, they say, but machine-driven abundance will replace what is lost. Freed from drudgery, ordinary people will devote themselves to art, philosophy, travel, community, and self-cultivation. The nation will become a republic of fulfilled and creative souls, all liberated from economic necessity. It is an attractive vision. It is also the same old fantasy that material abundance can dissolve the harder facts of human nature.The idea that AI can produce the predicted level of abundance is itself a huge, untested assumption. Man is not a machineAI is well-suited to handling many managerial tasks and repetitive interactions. It is far less capable in situations that require judgment, responsibility, dexterity, trust, and adaptation to messy reality. Even the systems that do work require expensive hardware, enormous energy consumption, and a dense supporting infrastructure. A country that struggles to maintain basic institutional competence should be wary of fantasies about a nearly labor-free future sustained by flawless technical systems. Before promising a world beyond work, the advocates of UBI should first show that the machinery behind that world can actually exist. Even if one grants the premise that AI could replace most labor and generate enough abundance to meet material needs, UBI would still collide with basic truths about human nature. Men do not work merely to eat. Work gives shape to the day, imposes discipline, teaches competence, and anchors identity. People on welfare in the current system are not known for their high propensity to churn out great American novels or breathtaking sculptures. Instead, welfare recipients tend to watch television, play video games, and do drugs with their free time. Idleness, not unleashed creativity, is the fruit most often produced by removing the human need for labor.Undoubtedly, some genuinely talented people who are trapped in unfulfilling jobs would benefit from this UBI scenario, but for the average person, it would be a disaster. For most people, even imperfect work provides something essential: structure, routine, responsibility, and a recognized place in the world. Slaves to the tech plantationA humanity freed from the necessity of labor would see the Pareto Principle run wild, with a small number of talented and driven people benefiting greatly as the rest fall into idleness. The mortality rate of men spikes when they retire because they lose the structure and meaning that had previously defined their lives.UBI advocates also have a habit of addressing only the survival aspects of economic behavior while ignoring one of its most important functions — status. The status hierarchy is one of the most important aspects of how humans order our societies, and to determine our place within that hierarchy, we play status games. Occupations can be extremely desirable for the status they confer, not just the resources they provide. A plumber may earn more than a professor, yet many people would still prefer the title and standing that come with academic life. If AI makes a base level of abundance available, people will compete over something to obtain status. Maybe artisanal, hand-manufactured items will become the new marker of status. The point is that these behaviors are hardwired into humans, and we should not expect them to disappear even if we solve the problem suddenly that they initially addressed.AI enthusiasts rarely consider the consequences of disconnecting the entire production process from humans. Markets currently seek to maintain an equilibrium between human production and human consumption. There are artificial signals and plenty of distortion, but markets are still human-centered. If you decouple the system from human input by placing everyone on UBI, you create a closed techno-commercial feedback loop that no longer needs to be restricted by human concerns. In such a system, the citizen is no longer a participant but a dependent end user. That is not merely an economic shift. It is a transformation in the meaning of social life.The danger grows sharper once one considers the political power UBI would concentrate in the state. The U.S. government already plays favorites, denying business loans, college scholarships, mortgage assistance, and other benefits to races, religions, or political affiliations that it finds undesirable. Every payment can become a point of pressure. Every dependency can become a tool of compliance. It should be obvious that the state would become even more abusive if it became the only distributor of economic goods and services. Incredibly, socialists, libertarians, and techno capitalists can all make the same mistake, though it is not that surprising once you realize the underlying error. Their ideologies differ, but all are tempted by the same thin view of man as a creature defined mainly by material needs. But man is not a machine to be provisioned. We are more than just inputs and outputs; we are creatures who require meaning and purpose. That is something that a universal basic income can never give. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:28:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>WATCH: Glenn Beck ruthlessly mocks Kathy Hochul for begging ex&#45;New Yorkers to return and fund her social programs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As the state of New York continues to experience a mass exodus of its richest denizens, Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is getting desperate.On March 11, during a Politico New York Agenda: Albany Summit, Hochul essentially admitted that the state is toast without the rich to sustain its costly social programs.“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state, right? Now there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. … But maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded,” she said.Glenn Beck was shocked by her brazen treatment of the wealthy as cash cows.“Do you hear what she&#039;s saying there? I need people of high net worth because I need their money to do stuff in the state,” he scoffs.                Glenn says that the reason he doesn’t permanently move to Idaho, where his vacation home is located, is because of a single interaction he had with a Republican politician in the state.“When I went to speak to some of the Republicans up in the House and the Senate in Idaho … a Republican came up to me and said … ‘We hope you [move here], because we want to add you to the tax base,”’ he recounts. “And I said, ‘You know what? You&#039;ve guaranteed that I will never move to Idaho.”’Similarly, ex-New Yorkers have zero incentive to return to the state. “If you live in the city, you&#039;re already taking an additional 12%, plus the state gets their [cut] as well, plus the federal government,” says Glenn, “so, you know, if you&#039;re making good money, you get to keep, like, I don&#039;t know, 40% of it.”“Who doesn&#039;t want to live like that?” he asks sarcastically.Glenn speculates that Hochul’s desperate pleading won’t produce the results she desires and neither will her proposal to implement an annual tax surcharge on luxury second homes in New York City that are valued at $5 million or more.Announced on April 15, the new surcharge, which would be on top of regular property taxes, is designed to make ultra-wealthy non-residents who do not pay city or state income taxes &quot;contribute their fair share&quot; to city services so that New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) can close the city’s budget gap.The choice is simple, says Glenn: “Pay none of that in Texas or Florida or Tennessee,&quot; or “go back [to New York] and pay all of that and then pay an extra if you have something that [Kathy Hochul] thinks is too much.”“I&#039;m so tempted to go back to New York right now. … I&#039;m like, I don&#039;t know, should I live in Florida or should I maybe go back to New York City and help them build that supermarket?” he mocks.To hear more, watch the video above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream. ]]></description>
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<title>Mamdani’s Supermarket Sweep: Soviet Edition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, has now decided that the time has come: At long last, he’s going to put into action his Soviet plan for a government-run grocery store. Are you excited about government-run grocery stores? It’s going to be just great, because if there’s one thing that we have to ... ]]></description>
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<title>Lawmaker blows whistle on &amp;apos;Stop Nick Shirley Act&amp;apos;: A Democrat effort to halt &amp;apos;exposing fraud&amp;apos; in California</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Investigative journalist Nick Shirley, made famous after his viral Minnesota day care fraud video that exposed the &quot;Quality Learing Center&quot; and millions of dollars of alleged fraud, appears to have ruffled the feathers of Democrats in California. A Republican lawmaker raised the alarm on a bill in California that would drastically clamp down on investigations like those conducted by Shirley. &#039;The enemy truly is within.&#039;On Monday, Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio issued a press release warning about AB 2624, a bill he dubbed the &quot;Stop Nick Shirley Act.&quot;&quot;California Democrats are trying to intimidate citizen watchdog journalists and protect waste and fraud happening in far-left-wing NGOs. AB 2624 can only be described as the &#039;Stop Nick Shirley Act&#039; — a bill designed to silence citizen journalists exposing fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars,&quot; DeMaio said in the press release.RELATED: &#039;Minnesota was big but California is even bigger&#039;: Nick Shirley uncovers staggering alleged fraud right under Newsom&#039;s nose                                Justin Sullivan/Getty Images&quot;AB 2624 would allow activists and taxpayer-funded organizations to demand the removal of video evidence — even if it captures misconduct in plain view — and threatens journalists with massive financial penalties,&quot; DeMaio added. &quot;That&#039;s not about public safety — it&#039;s about protecting powerful interests.&quot;AB 2624 was proposed by Democrat Assemblymember Mia Bonta earlier this year. Bonta&#039;s husband, Rob Bonta, is the Democrat attorney general of California. Attorney General Bonta has been targeting hospices and other facilities for possible fraud, overlapping with Shirley&#039;s investigations in many respects. On Monday, Bonta wrote on social media that &quot;in California, we&#039;ve been cracking down on fraud for years.&quot; AB 2624 is framed as a privacy and anti-doxxing measure specifically for immigration service providers, their associates, and their clients. The bill is written with the following context in mind, directly calling out President Trump and his &quot;anti-immigration&quot; policies: Persons working in the organizations that provide immigration support services have faced doxxing, courthouse targeting, online harassment, anti-immigrant vigilante threats, and coordinated campaigns and death threats. These acts have risen to alarming levels in 2025 and will continue due to the current federal administration’s anti-immigration attitude and policies.The bill prohibits the posting of the &quot;personal information or image&quot; of a &quot;designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address&quot; &quot;with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence.&quot;  Those found in violation of this section of the bill would face a fine of up to $10,000, one year of imprisonment, or both. Additionally, if bodily injury were to come to anyone protected by the bill as a result of an investigation, the person responsible for the post would have committed a felony punishable by up to $50,000, imprisonment, or both. The other key provision of the bill is more obscure:A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the Secretary of State as the participant’s address. When creating a public record, state and local agencies shall accept the address designated by the Secretary of State as a program participant’s substitute address.In other words, the addresses of program participants and immigration service providers, which are presumably public, would be obscured with another address, thereby possibly blocking investigations into these programs. Interested journalists and opponents of the bill view the potential obscuring of addresses and the steep punishments for disseminating information about these services, even without the intent to cause harm, as impediments to investigation and accountability. Elon Musk weighed in on the news, and DeMaio reposted his comment: &quot;California legislators are trying to make investigating fraud illegal.&quot;Nick Shirley, responding to DeMaio&#039;s press release, said in part, &quot;The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it&#039;s time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who &#039;rule&#039; over us.&quot;Shirley added in a subsequent post that he was thinking of moving on to exposing fraud in another state, but the news of this bill changed his mind: &quot;I&#039;ve helped save America millions and billions of dollars by exposing fraud across the country. I was thinking about exposing another state but I think I will now go back to California[. N]ew exposé coming soon.&quot;Blaze News contacted California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Assemblymember Mia Bonta for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here! ]]></description>
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<title>Argentina Is Booming—Capitalism Remains Undefeated</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In 2023, over 100 leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed a letter warning that “far-right” Argentine presidential candidate Javier... Read More
The post Argentina Is Booming—Capitalism Remains Undefeated appeared first on The Daily Signal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:28:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayers Increasingly Blame Government Fraud for Rising Cost of Living, Poll Shows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — As widespread government fraud emerges across the country, a new poll finds that Americans are not only overwhelmingly alarmed by taxpayer... Read More
The post EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayers Increasingly Blame Government Fraud for Rising Cost of Living, Poll Shows appeared first on The Daily Signal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:28:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>5.4 Million People Have Migrated to Pro&#45;Trump Counties Since 2020 as the Great Divorce Continues</title>
<link>https://freedomisbackinstyle.com/54-million-people-have-migrated-to-pro-trump-counties-since-2020-as-the-great-divorce-continues</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The past five years have seen a massive migration of Americans out of heavily Democratic counties and into ones where Donald Trump won majorities in... Read More
The post 5.4 Million People Have Migrated to Pro-Trump Counties Since 2020 as the Great Divorce Continues appeared first on The Daily Signal. ]]></description>
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<title>Big Tech Built A Digital Slot Machine, And Your Family Is Paying The Price</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you. *** The recent lawsuit against Meta forces a question the company has long tried to sidestep: Is Instagram merely “problematic,” as its executives claim, or is it addictive by ... ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:28:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>How China Dominates the World’s Critical Minerals Production</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Critical minerals are mined all over the world but the majority of the supply ends up passing through China. For a broad range of key... Read More
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:28:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The California Exodus Grows as Affordability Crisis Pushes Residents Out</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The California Exodus is quickening, and it turns out the people leaving don’t have to wander too long to find a new promised land. That’s... Read More
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:28:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>America’s elites trusted global trade. Japan trusted reality.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Moshitora,” Japanese shorthand for “what if Trump?,” first emerged in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election, as policymakers and business leaders in Tokyo tried to make sense of an unpredictable candidate.The phrase resurfaced in early 2024 as Donald Trump’s campaign regained momentum. This time, it carried more than curiosity. It reflected strategic caution and genuine unease. What would a second Trump presidency mean for Japan’s security, its economic ties, and its role in the Indo-Pacific?The US-Japan alliance has entered a new phase that looks beyond defense alone. The question mattered bigly. Since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in 2022, Japan has had to manage its alliance with Washington without the personal rapport Abe cultivated over decades. Trump’s first term had already shown how quickly supply chains could become instruments of strategic power and how fast economic policy could merge with national security.For decades after the Cold War, Western policymakers assumed deep trade ties would soften geopolitical tensions. If nations became economically intertwined, conflict would grow too costly to sustain. That assumption collapsed. Supply chains did not reduce rivalry. They became tools of leverage instead.Technology, once treated mainly as an engine of economic growth, became a strategic asset. Materials long confined to commodity markets — lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare earths — moved to the center of national security planning.The consequences reached far beyond trade policy. Industries once taken for granted became strategic pressure points. Governments began to see commercial flows not as neutral exchanges, but as levers of power. Control over production, processing, and access could shape the balance of global influence.Trump’s first administration accelerated that reckoning. Washington had to confront dependencies it had ignored for too long. Over the next several years, policymakers turned instinct into structure. Alliances no longer looked like military arrangements alone. They began to function as economic security networks built around trusted supply chains, resilient manufacturing, and reliable access to critical materials.The results are now visible. In October 2025, the U.S. and Japan signed a framework to secure supply chains for rare earths and critical minerals, with the stated goal of reducing dependence on China’s dominant processing capacity.Africa shows the stakes even more clearly. In early 2026, Glencore entered a nonbinding agreement with the U.S.-backed Orion Critical Mineral Consortium to sell 40% of its Mutanda and Kamoto copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.RELATED: China is arming itself with minerals America refuses to mine                                Bert van Dijk / Getty ImagesThese mines rank among the world’s largest producers of metals essential to next-generation technologies. The deal aims to diversify supply beyond China’s orbit.Across Africa, Washington has deepened partnerships to strengthen supply chains for essential commodities, while Japan has pursued its own ties with resource-rich nations.These efforts go beyond securing raw materials. They concern industrial resilience, strategic autonomy, and influence over the technologies that will define the next era of power. Countries now face a hard question: Who offers long-term commitment, and who merely shows up to extract what it needs?Japan’s approach reflects foresight. Its economic security policies — diversifying supply chains, investing in semiconductors, and deepening ties with African and Southeast Asian resource producers — show a clear understanding that industrial capacity underwrites national power. In some respects, Tokyo saw this shift coming before Washington did.The U.S.-Japan alliance has entered a new phase that looks beyond defense alone. Who will build together, mine together, and secure the industrial base behind technological competition? The choices nations make now will help determine which economies and militaries remain resilient enough to compete in the years ahead.“Moshitora” began as a phrase about a single American election. Its return in 2024 looks, in hindsight, like a warning Japan had already begun to heed. The question now is whether Washington will answer with the same clarity, persistence, and long-term vision. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:28:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Fed Missed The Moment. Again.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Federal Reserve got it wrong again. By refusing to cut rates yesterday, the Fed showed that it is still fighting yesterday’s inflation while ignoring today’s economy. The Federal Open Market Committee left its target range unchanged at 3.5% to 3.75%. It also didn’t change the rate it pays on nearly $3 trillion of bank ... ]]></description>
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