Completely agree that the costs are more concrete than the benefits, but saying 'it's very expensive' is not a cost benefit analysis (and I don't think you can do a cost-benefit analysis if the only thing you can quantify are the fiscal costs)

As @centristmum.bsky.social points out above though, small-scale unconditional cash transfers are very much not UBI - an important part of the policy is the second or third order effects on society from changes to a whole population's relationship to work, which you can't know beforehand

I'm not completely sold on UBI, but I do worry that dismissing it out of hand as unfeasible is an example of the liberal aversion to potentially transformative but hard-to-test policy that you critiqued well in your recent substack post

Will have to try it!

V good column! I also think the change makes learning to roleplay harder - the old descriptions of races had a lot more flavour that you could work off (and then ignore when you feel more confident), whereas with the newer more homogeneous species descriptions you're left to your own devices