A primary research resource and catalyst for everyday people, activists, academics, and policy makers to make the transition from merely exploring basic income as an interesting concept to implementing it as a policy, at scale. Toaccomplish this task, we begin by asking why civilization emerged in the first place, how those purposes change over time, what it is we believe civilization is designed to achieve today, and where we are currently situated, on the timeline of human history, so that we may better understand both the context and urgency of the current, precarious economic plight of the vast majority of Americans.