Once Again, TANSTAAFL Rears Its Ugly Head

A new study of Universal Basic Income trials concludes that making cash payments to all is no solution to poverty.

Hope they didn’t spend a lot on that study. Any parent with an adult child in their basement could’ve told them that for free.

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  1. ♩♪
    Gimme
    Gimme
    Gimme
    I got love for you, Timmy
    But you’ve got to make a living too . . .

    Lord, you’re such a sweet thing
    Quick enough to eat things
    And that’s just what you’re gonna do.

    Kinda like Sanders
    Kinda like lice
    Kinda like “What do you do?”

    Kinda sounds funny
    Ooh, you love money
    Cunning Sonny I love you.

    Ba da
    Ba da da da da
    Ba da da da da

    Ba da da da . . .

    ♩♪

    — Ohio Primaries Express


  2. U.B.I. didn’t give you
    Quite as much as it could have
    And U.B.I. didn’t treat you
    Quite as good as it should have
    If it made you feel second best —
    Unemployable — it was blind

    ‘Cause you were always on my dime
    You were always on my dime . . .


  3. {twists radio dial}

    I’m sitting in my parents’ basement
    No particular destination
    Mmm-mm-mm

    Games and porn on my night-stand
    Cheetoes and guitar in hand
    And PhotoShop is on demand
    For a know-it-all and one-man band

    Home-bound
    I wish I was
    Underground
    Home, where my ‘rents are paying
    Home, where my music’s playing
    Home, where my love-life’s failing
    Incel-ently, like me

    Every day’s an endless stream
    Of sybarites and YouTube queens
    Mmm-mm-mm

    And each blog looks the same to me
    The movies and their backstory
    And every stranger’s post I see
    Reminds me that I’m twenty-three

    Home-bound
    I wish I was in
    Homer’s town
    Home, where my ‘rents are paying
    Home, where my music’s playing
    Home, where my love-life’s failing
    Xi-centric, rent-free

    Tonight I’ll ping my songs again
    I’ll play the games and pretend
    Mmm-mm-mm

    But the outside world comes back to me
    In shades of mediocrity
    And emptiness, and finally
    I need someone to come feed me

    Home-bound
    I wish I was
    Fun to be around
    Home, where my ‘rents are paying
    Home, where my music’s playing
    Home, where my love-life’s failing
    Mentally — like me.

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