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I want to signal-boost Tumblr user\xa0squareallworthy\u2018s analysis of various UBI plans:

1.\xa0Jensen et al\u2019s plan
2.\xa0Healy et al\u2019s plan
3.\xa0Andrew Yang\u2019s plan
4.\xa0Torry\u2019s plan
5.\xa0Sheahen\u2019s plan
6.\xa0Dolan\u2019s plan
7.\xa0Stern and Murray\u2019s plans
8.\xa0Santens\u2019 plan
8\xbd.\xa0Varoufakis and Reich\u2019s plan
9.\xa0Yang\u2019s plan, redux

He finds that most of them fail on basic math \u2013 they rely on funding schemes that wouldn\u2019t come close to covering costs. The rest are too small to actually lift people out of poverty. None of them are at all credible.

These plans fail even though they cheat and give themselves dictatorial power. \u201cEnd corporate welfare, then redirect the money to UBI!\u201d But if it was that easy to end corporate welfare, wouldn\u2019t people have done it already, for non-UBI related reasons? \u201cWe\u2019ll get a UBI by ending corporate welfare\u201d is an outrageous claim. And even the plans that let themselves make it fail on basic math.

This is humbling and depressing. And it concludes the intelligent and useful part of this post that signal-boosts the work of a responsible person. Everything below is epistemic status: wild speculation.