How about a Genius Basic Income?
Ha, as if people in America don&#x27;t hate the intelligent enough already. Forget it!<p>The tech is there for basic income for all. The resources are there. They&#x27;ve been there for a long time.<p>What&#x27;s holding us back is that the powerful LIKE US SCRAPING BY. Billionaires pay millionaires to convince the dumbest of us not to help people too much.<p>&quot;We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.&quot; - Bucky Fuller<p>&quot;This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.&quot; - Einstein<p>Buckminster Fuller was a certified genius. So was Einstein. MLK, James Connolly, Helen Keller, Bertrand Russell, and many others said similar things - not that you&#x27;d hear much about that side of them in school. They supported the idea that we ought to make things better for HUMANS, for the planet, for all beings.<p>To try and sum up - I don&#x27;t think any genius worth the title would want to be part of an elite class, while their so-called less worthy brethren can&#x27;t afford school lunches, or are getting bombed by genius-made weapons.<p>Basic income - yes, let&#x27;s do it. Basic income only for people who will feed the beast - fuck off.