January Fifteenth

This book is well-intentioned, but the author clearly got over her skis. It doesn't seem like she did any research or thought through how universal basic income could work. As a result, the world building was weak. Set against that were four totally unconnected story lines. Three of the plots had the themes and narrative subtlety of Law & Order episodes, if Law & Order  decided to have episodes that was all from the victims' perspective. I want to say that I at least agree with the politics of the book, but I don't because in the end the only character that seemed to show any development was an 18-year-old rich white girl who goes to Brown, and I'm not sure I'm ready for a book that suggests that rich people can get woke in the course of a day while drunk and high. I think this author was writing about characters and situations she doesn't understand and it really showed.  if you really don't spend hardly any time, thinking about economic injustice and inequality in our society, this book might get you thinking. But otherwise, I found it to be pretty superficial In terms of its attempts at social commentary, and not well written enough to serve as pure entertainment