Fansy posted:

We live in a society steeped in protestant work ethic. What's more likely to attract a majority of voters:

1) Guaranteed jobs for everyone
2) Universal basic income



In the Second Bill of Rights FDR proposed (among other things that would frighten today's liberals) that Americans should have:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

Today, some post-keynesian economists are pushing for the same thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_guarantee

So why has the idea of UBI caught on with today's left (and libertarians) but not a job guarantee?