I keep saying this, but i keep having to.  Listening to her another pundit debate about whether whatever trump is doing right now ( in this case, reversing direction I Ukraine) is good policy or bad policy, and it's not the right question.  It might have good effect. It might be catastrophic. The issue is that one man is in a position to decide!  He is a KING!  We don't want a king!

UBI doesn't mean "no work".  It means divorcing work from remuneration.  There's still plenty of good work, but no one wants to pay you for it, so you get paid independently of your work. For example, you write songs.  You build a house for yourself.  You learn to sail, and take people sailing.  You raise a kid.  

You don't expect to get paid for any of it, but you do the work because work is meaningful and life affirming.  Remuneration, the money you need to live, doesn't depend on renting your labor out, which when you think about it is a pretty modern idea.  Back in the day we had patronage, and inheritance, and allowances (and slavery!) and all sorts of mechanisms that didn't directly tie labor to money.

The Guardian sees us in a time where we transitioned away from Pax Americana to an indeterminate state where we can’t rely on the US because the leadership keeps changing direction, so other countries have to form institutions that work around us (https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/10/are-we-heading-for-another-world-war-or-has-it-already-started).  But that’s just the intermediate position; the US will bring its weight to bear to actively oppose much of the rest of the world, and the rest of the world will have to find a way to stand up to it.