It may be a screed. We could get into the numbers of why basic income doesn't work and talk about the realities of implementing it, but nobody needs to hear me blabbering more than I have.

If the tone sounds exasperated, it's because I don't believe "basic income" is a panacea that is a real or considered answer to what the article is addressing which is inequality due to a "meritocratic" system. It's become a meme.

We've got a social ill? Basic income!