Actually I think you’re on to something. A bunch of Chinese communist students went to school in France as well.
Maybe it’s just that lunatic fringe politics that permeated French colleges at the time. Because they created a bunch of mass murdering lunatics.
The French communists themselves would have been mass murdering lunatics had they been able to actually take power. Their whole problem with Vichy France and Petain wasn’t that he was oppressing and killing people. They were mad that he wasn’t killing the right kind of people.
Some people who have never owned or run a business come up with some of the stupidest ideas because they have no cognizance of how the pieces of this economic puzzle all fit together. They call these people…politicians.
The silencing of speech, the woke-ism in film and literature, the cancel culture, even the smashing of statues are all taken so directly, from Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” one must wonder, if only briefly, if it was orchestrated.
I don’t know if there is anywhere a UBI could work. But it certainly wouldn’t work in America. We have too many people who would happily stay in their parents basement playing video games and collecting free money from the government.
