DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE ANDREW YANG and universal basic income. Yand was born in 1975 and has obviously neither read history nor science fiction, particularly science fiction. If he had even a passing familiarity with Mack Reynolds' United Planets and Bat Hardin novels he might begin to dimly comprehend why the Universal Basic Income is a bad idea.

If you define a generation as about 15 years, it's interesting to note that bad ideas (i.e., history) repeats itself about every 4th generation.

Even Mallard Fillmore gets it.

And now that history is no longer being taught, expect the repetition cycle to shorten even more....