Republicans love capitalism so much, that they'll hug it to the point it can no longer breathe. Markets need customers. Customers need money. Get money to people so they can be customers. UBI makes capitalism work for everyone through public ownership of the means of consumption.

In order for markets to work best we all need to be able to signal what we want markets to create. By "public ownership" I mean to stress that we should see the ability to vote in markets in the same way we see our right to vote — it belongs to all of us. https://www.scottsantens.com/unconditional-basic-income-would-fix-a-major-flaw-in-markets

Capitalism is not working for everyone, but it does work for those who have sufficient access to the means of consumption, aka . The problem is that capitalism concentrates in fewer & fewer hands over time. To work for everyone, capitalism needs UBI. https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1214225070949851136