Rebe’s Reviews > Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn > Status Update

Hughes doesn’t exactly advocate a UBI here, more of a “guaranteed income” of $500/mo to every adult worker in a household earning under $50k/yr. He specifies workers, not citizens in general, I think because he expects other social programs like Disability to cover the holes and in part because he thinks it’d go over better to start small and expand later.

A lot of overlap between this book and Utopia for Realists. But I think this book is more focused on just the idea of a UBI and incorporates more of a personal angle as Hughes relates anecdotes from his own life or family history.

“The US already runs the biggest cash transfer program in the world, giving tens of billions of dollars, no strings attached, to struggling poor families to help boost their incomes and stabilize their financial lives.”

Chris Hughes makes a valid point that the same factors/policies that have allowed for mega-companies like Walmart to expand and expand while enriching their CEOs have also often made things worse for the average American in terms of things like jobs being exported overseas and wages stagnating.