What Would Happen If Just Gave People Money Analysis

In the article "What Would Happen If We just Gave People Money?" by Andrew Flowers, this article is about basic income and what it exactly is. The author explains the backstory of basic income, by using Daniel Straub's story who has a running campaign on basic income in Switzerland. The introduction of this article really draws the attention of the reader, as the first few paragraphs seem to be very interesting. Flowers then goes on to explaining in further detail of the history of basic income; such as people who have had past experiences on basic income, current basic income campaigns, etc.

At first the idea of basic income seemed to be very distant and did not seem to be too relevant to the United States but as I continued to read on I …show more content…
Now I may not have gone through all the hyper links due to the large amount of links available, but the links that I did go through, they seemed to be very credible. The only problem I had with the hyper links were the fact that they did hurt my eyes a little bit, but the knowledge in exchange for slight irritation seems to be a fair trade. I think that the hyper links were helpful especially the hyper link to basic tax knowledge because I have no background knowledge of tax, and it really helped me. The provided graphs gave a very good visual representation of the explanation provided to the reader to give them a greater depth of understanding with corresponding text. However aside from the two graphs the other pictures just seemed to be a distraction to me.

To end this article the author decided to end this article with the quote “The market economy is great, but we want to substitute it with another system — take it to the next level,” I think that the author left off with this quote because he wanted to give the reader the feeling like the economy is decent but they could make it better. They said it in a way where people would understand the quote without being offended by