From my POV (jaded early-40s tech dropout, electrician); the joke on jobsites back when Andrew Yang campaigned (Presidentially with UBI as a platform policy) was:
>We're either going to have to have Universal Basic Income, or send a bunch of young men off to die in foreign wars – and leadership won't ever voluntarily implement UBI, so I guess it's time for a bunch of dudes to die.
[here we are, six year later]
Maybe the datacenter jobsites are a bit too morbid, but I was really hoping that UBI would've been possible (by now), one pandemic later. We even got (surprise MFers!) LLMs to help with re-distributions... and all we got was a trillionaire!
[0] the current state of Power in this world, whose...
I will not re-write or link to open display(s) of hate.
Seinfeld recently stated that "it's a genocide, I'm into it" which is where my mind went based on your comment. But the capital P power line also leads me towards "Jews run the world" tropes.
>"Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can..."
But I am open to exploring your interpretation (¿por que no los dos?) of this hyperspecific example.