@dpp @scottsantens they don’t like stimulus checks either. they hate taxes, and UBI smells like taxes. what they like most is a pliable workforce and a politics hostage to “business confidence”. they like that more than they like a brisk economy. people beyond money in the sense of unmet consumption wants often turn to power as their core concern.

Michal Kalecki called it in 1943 https://mronline.org/2010/05/22/political-aspects-of-full-employment/