As optimistic as they seem on the surface, calling for GBI is, in a way, a call for throwing in of the towel by the human race. It&#x27;s a hasty concession that continued human well-being is no longer compatible with nature or morality. Oddly, such defeatist calls invariably ignore a raft of dreadful and immediate societal effects: the end of meaningful work and self-esteem as both an option and a goal for the masses; the justifiable resentment of productive people whose living standard will be forcibly degraded; and the institutional bifurcation of the human race into producers and parasites, with the reduction of the whole to a sort of government-managed bi-pedal livestock.