Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

At first I was going to hate it, because it seemed like another article expanded into a book. It was almost soon evident that the book isn't going to address any hard (political) problems with implementing universal basic income. And if you've read about UBI a bit like I have, you've heard about many of the stories in this book.

But soon I adopted a “why not?” attitude. The book is a quick and simple read and more of a call to revolution (in political thinking) than a real implementation plan. And, why not be satisfied with just that?

After all, it's not like the current system of increasing inequality was produced by a carefully thought out plan. UBI could be a good idea (author provides plenty of evidence) and that's good enough for us to start demanding it.