If guaranteed income demonstrably cut violent crime, lowered healthcare costs, and boosted entrepreneurship — and the only documented trade-off was recipients working one hour less per week — Jerremy Alexander Newsome says the answer is obviously yes. Dave Conley argues no institution can be trusted to administer it, so it needs to be constitutionally locked in as Amendment 28 — or it becomes a control lever, and someone will eventually threaten to withhold your check for something you said online. Jerremy's hot take: Vitalik Buterin runs it, and he's actively developing a concept he calls solar coin — a blockchain token that converts residential solar energy into universal energy credits transferable across borders. Bitcoin's original design — borderless, ungoverned, no approval required — gets reframed as a proof-of-concept for universal basic currency, built in 2008 specifically because the financial system looked like it wasn't getting out. The failure mode is WALL-E and Idiocracy, and both agree shame still has a role to play in preventing it.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) The system no one can touch – building the tamper-proof UBI architecture
• (03:19) Vitalik and solar coin – Ethereum, energy credits, and a live vision
• (07:23) Bitcoin as universal basic currency – borderless, ungoverned, and the template
• (12:28) Fewer wage hours – why that trade-off is actually the success metric
• (18:34) The WALL-E scenario – complacency, base desires, and the role of shame

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