Thanks for the nice feedback! I am a proponent of a UBI, but unfortunately a UBI does very little to address the massive levels of wealth inequality we have in the U.S. and elsewhere. So long as wealth is tied to power, then those with the most wealth will continue to wield it to achieve their own goals even if it's at the expense of most of the population and the planet. Class differences are one of the primary reasons why the status quo seems so unchangeable because those in the upper echelons of society don't want anything to change and they have the influence to ensure they get what they want. UBI also does nothing to solve racial wealth gaps or debts owed by developing countries to developed countries, as I mentioned in my story. So we need to go much farther than UBI and begin to rethink the whole idea of wealth, in my opinion.

Thanks for pointing that out about the trade part and I have revised it slightly to explain that there wouldn't be trade in the traditional sense because there would be no exchange of goods and services for money. I do not think profits are required for Hubs to be successful. Again, they would be designed to be mostly self-sufficient by utilizing resources within the local region in a sustainable and regenerative way. I think subsistence living, as in how indigenous populations have lived for thousands of years perfectly well, is a lot better than excess living beyond our means, which is what we have now in most places. But the important point I make in my story is that we can still live in a technologically advanced future and don’t necessarily have to go back to hunter-gatherer lifestyles because technology and automation can provide humans with the basic necessities so that they are then free to pursue activities that are most meaningful to them.

There is no reason we need to cling to old outdated systems like capitalism or socialism. We can create entirely new systems that are far more dynamic in meeting the needs of all living things.

I do not think the pandemic is a good example of capitalism's success. Rather, it is an example of its utter failure to provide adequate vaccines to developing countries (in the name of pharmaceutical company profits) to prevent new strains from emerging that then make their way to developed countries, with the process repeating over and over at the cost of millions of lives.

Although EVs will be an important technology to help us get off of fossil fuels, not everyone will be able to own an EV for the simple reason that there aren't adequate raw material resources. Additionally, the extraction of these resources comes at the cost of human rights abuses in developing countries and recycling issues remain with the lithium-ion batteries. Maybe the latter will be resolved, but a far better vision than everyone owning an EV is to do away with car culture as much as possible and encourage the use of public transit, biking, and walking by designing cities in a way that makes these modes of transportation easier for people and more advantageous than driving a car.