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  • Here’s a dirty little secret, about why we don’t have a guaranteed income.

  • The elites are hugely condescending toward ordinary people.

  • They know better. They can help.

  • Whereas these truck driver and factory workers,

  • are likely to do really stupid things if you just give them the money.

  • I run into this all the time. I run into it, certainly from people on the left.

  • But also people on the right.

  • I ascribe this, to the degree of which a lot of people have lived in a bubble all their lives,

  • who now run the country.

  • They've been around people who are just as smart as they are.

  • Theyve lived around people who have the same values they do.

  • They haven’t the least idea,

  • of the degree of which, in a small Oklahoma town,

  • problems still get solved by people in that town,

  • who may not have stratospheric IQ’s,

  • but have a lot of common sense and a lot of knowledge

  • about how their town works.

  • One of the great barriers to enacting a simple plan,

  • that just gives people money,

  • is that it will require the elites to give up feeling good about themselves,

  • because theyre gonna help these poor benighted folks,

  • who can’t take care of themselves.

Here’s a dirty little secret, about why we don’t have a guaranteed income.

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