The fundamental reasons why Basic Income will never be enacted by any major party in the USA are:
- Devout bipartisan belief in the "Puritan work ethic" where "work for its own sake" is fetishized to an extreme;
- The fear that "undeserving" people (read, Black and Brown folk) will disproportionately receive the main benefits, thus reducing the power of White Christian Supremacy to maintain social hierarchies;
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