And nobody makes this argument more influentially than the tech industry elites who have become UBI's most prominent and most powerful supporters.
To do so, Mr. Chávez is using tactics like secret-police raids and expropriations of some of his most powerful supporters' businesses, relying on a dwindling number of military loyalists to carry out his orders.
There is now a movement to drive Mr. Mitchel off the Fusion ticket and substitute Mayor Gaynor, but the "World" and the Brooklyn "Eagle," two of the most powerful supporters of Fusion, would probably bolt the ticket.
Many of his richest and most powerful supporters are hoping to benefit from recent oil finds in the Albertine basin, along the border with Congo.Mr Museveni deserves credit for his far-sighted advocacy of regional economic integration.
Ms. Fields denies any political calculation, but she has flirted with the idea of running for city controller, a position being sought by one of Mr. Levy's most powerful supporters, the school board president, William Thompson.
Ms Rhee, one of the film's most active reformers, has recently seen her job thrown into limbo as Adrian Fenty, mayor of Washington, DC, lost the Democratic primary election to Vincent Gray, who counts the teacher's union among his most powerful supporters (which spent $1m during the campaign).
