I'm just guessing here, Zeke, but it appears from the tone that you feel you've made some kind of a point. I feel like I am speaking to a wall. It's incredibly unsatisfying. Please, provide me an example of where you have actually responded to the substance of any comment I made. We can proceed from there. Perhaps you can identify how a mixed a economy doesn't exit (and, please notify the majority of economists)? Maybe I missed something in my economics or political philosophy classes?

UBI is, I think, a paradigm shift. It is a major departure from the wage economy. The principle point of a "mixed" economy is to ameliorate the negative effects of private capitalist economic activity, primarily the "externalized social costs", such as environmental degradation, while at the same time recognizing that capitalist enterprises provide significant economic boosts to the economy as a whole.


A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich