The concept of universal basic income (or UBI) - a regularly provided cash payment distributed without conditions to all individuals within a defined community - has a long history and an as yet unwritten future. As someone considered to be one of the world’s experts on the topic with
China is not a democracy. It wise to think about that before declaring them the future.
I certainly don’t want them to be the future, anyway. I’m pretty big on things like equality and rule for the interest of the people.
The alternative is for a democratic nations to step forward and lead. The United States, and other western nations, are hamstrung by corporate-purchased-politicians who will sabatoge efforts to step forward.
Those corporations are giving China the head start.
As a westerner, I am given the choice of corporate indentured servitude, or cheering for China. I would love a world where the west can lead, but apparently we don’t live in that world.
The lesser of evils seems to be to embrace China’s global leadership.
Never thought I’d take this stance, but here we are. No one else is helping as my generation drowns in debt.
TLDR, The west is sabatoging itself.