Often the policies ignore basic differences in expressed values. UBI is cast as a change to improve their lives. The problem is that we&#x27;re talking about populations whose political memories can be neatly summarized as &quot;Someone promised to improve my life with a policy, then things got worse&quot;.<p>At the core of it, <i>they don&#x27;t trust you</i>. Nothing you can say matters after that.