Universal Income is a Right

it’s also the way we save democracy

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, (original version), 1778

There are already hundreds of articles tackling the explosive entry of Universal Basic Income into the public sphere. As Rutger Bregman pointed out in his book Utopia for Realists, UBI is not an exclusively new principle — it has even been extraordinarily close to achieving a Presidential signature in the past.

In 1968, a number…