My feeling after watching this is that there is a disconnect from communities and even farther down individual families.  Paul Polak who has had a substantial impact on poor families in developing countries criticized utilizing GDP as a way of evaluating developing countries in terms of individual families in poverty.  GDP is great but what is the impact on the individual family in the middle of the country.  We need better metrics to evaluate the health and prosperity of our society.  In talking about development work and poverty Paul Polak said the problem is that, “the most well know least utilized steps to problem solving.  You can’t sit in an office at the World Bank and solve problems for a family in Africa.”   Paul Polak made a commitment to go to where the problems are and interview 100 customer a year.  He would ask why are you poor and what can be done about it.  If large numbers of people are working three low paying uninsured jobs then how is employment rates telling us how we are doing.  <br><br>If you come to my home and ask what would help me more a monthly income for my wife and I or a earned income tax credit.  I would choose a monthly UBI.  Earned income help yearly not at the time of an unexpected expense such as loss of wages or a car breaking down.  I’m a business owner who desires to start new endeavors.  I will do these but a UBI would speed up my next start up.  <br><br>Universal basic income is a direct investment in we the people.  Centralizing certain investments is foundational to the synergy of our society but decentralizing empowerment in the details of Existing day to day is an investment that will set loose the power in the hands of millions.  It will bring about massive shift in culture and social good.  A government building one road for me is great but the government choosing one shoe for all is dystopian.  <br><br>On the political side there are the free market believers and the centralized government believers.  Unchecked power in corporations is a mess just as government becoming a nanny state that has little to no trust in the people is unproductive.  The Washington elites believe society is like children and wish to guide us as a parent guides a child.  The layers of waste and dysfunction do to treating your adult children as an immature dependent is wasteful and produces dysfunction as well as waste of talents.  <br><br>This talk also made me want to understand this idea that productivity has not increased.  How is that possible when you look at numbers of farmers and the wall to wall robots in factories or warehouses.  We have tech companies that build something once and it generates money at very low costs.