The Biggest US Cash Study Came Back With Nothing
The largest US cash experiment returned a big fat zero on measurable child outcomes. Dalton Conley tells Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave the American dream only worked because WWII obliterated every competitor. The 1960s negative income tax kept people unemployed longer and increased divorce. AI leaders dropped the jobs apocalypse narrative once it scared people. A MAGA-Bernie coalition might be the only path left — but 11% of the US population can theoretically block it in the Senate.
- (00:00) One missed paycheck – one in three Americans can't survive it
- (01:11) The 1950s dream – only worked because WWII destroyed the competition
- (06:11) Biggest US cash study – years of brain scans came back zero
- (09:11) 1960s negative income tax – unemployment went up, so did divorce
- (10:06) The records were lost in a flood – and with them the answer
- (11:14) AI CEOs pushed UBI – then quietly walked back the jobs apocalypse
- (12:51) Kennedy's 1963 commission – what do we do when work disappears?
- (15:38) Why UBI can't pass – eleven percent of people control the Senate
- (18:43) Chinese imports, opioids – the communities that lost both at once
- (21:00) Chess got more popular – even after computers made humans irrelevant
