[...] recently even billionaires have been paying lip service to the idea that some version of the policy could make existing social spending more efficient, labor markets more flexible, and so on. As we have stressed, however, implementing any version that could plausibly be called liberating for the average worker would require permanent and unprecedented expropriation of businesses and wealthy people. However meticulous the case for a policy that has this consequence, it should be clear that the business class will not willingly agree to expropriate itself.