I preface this as a dyed in the wool liberal voter, I’m centre right. I say this because I will come off as a looney Green, I’m not. . To me a classic example of a non participatory capitalism is the USA. The consolidation of wealth in so few hands is obscene. You can’t tell people they have freedom of speech and liberty when they know they can’t afford 2 minute noodles and expect society to function.bas long as you can own a gun but can’t expect universal medical cover, how can this work. I understand somewhere like Finland came up with the idea if the country makes a profit divide that number by the population and distribute. Amazingly in the USA the demographics in USA show age expectation declining amongst men. As the baby boomers leave the work force drugs, obesity, alcoholism and suicide is actually reducing the life expectancy of men. How can it be in a country with 16% of global GDP and a relatively smaller % population can this happen. I did my final university paper in Detroit and when I saw the disparity of wealth between Gross Point and Detroit it angered me. Yet the voting posters were up. i would have burnt the place down why vote if you have no real hope. Universal income is just another means of keeping the economy functioning, keeping some form of social harmony. It will come because it will keep the great unwashed some what clean.
