Finland reports that its experiment with a universal basic income (for 500 people chosen at random) was a success: it made their lives better and reduced the frequency of various kinds of problems. It did not lead people to choose not to work.

This could be a good way to help people survive the depression now starting and shorten it.

With almost 1/5 of American children not getting enough food, the US needs this urgently. I suppose plutocrats relish the idea of stunting poor people's children through malnutrition, because the effects will reduce their capacity, when adults, to oppose plutocracy, and provide an excuse to dehumanize them.