Denver Basic Income Project for the unhoused sees the number of participants who own or rent a home increase from 5% of participants to 40% in 6 months.
Business reviewed this proposal and it didn't give the right amount of dread to keep employees panicking about keeping their jobs. Everyone knows that employees afraid of losing their jobs are less likely to form unions more productive!
Some of the laboratories of democracy are pretty progressive, some more than the countries thought of as "progressive" in some ways even. But those ideas are never implemented nationally.
the majority of usa populace. most folks in America believe in a just world where those who are good are rich and should be rewarded and those who are bad are poor and should be punished.
hence why when a billionaire breaks the laws nobody cares, but when a poor person steals food they should be locked up.
they also believe in zero-sum thinking, where if anyone gets anything it came at the expense of someone else. they have no concept of how economics and life actually works. just consumed by jealousy and bitterness and assuming if others didn't 'take' from them they would have more.