The Cloud Piven Strategy

The cloud Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists, Richard cloud and Francis Fox Piven. It called for overloading the US public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of a guaranteed annual income. The idea is that it would make the federal government recognize just how many people are living in sub livable conditions. "I think what would wind up happening is not universal basic income, but the exact opposite," he says.