This one is easy. Just ask everyone in the town one question: "We're going to provide a basic income for you and everyone else. Now, what are your plans for w

This one is easy. Just ask everyone in the town one question: "We're going to provide a basic income for you and everyone else. Now, what are your plans for work?" Basic income will manufacture laziness. As a homeless teen, when I received charitable handouts, it was humiliating. "Why am I so inferior that I can't provide my own stuff, and rely on others to support me?" - makes you lazy - and paradoxically you begin to dislike the handout-givers -- "they probably think they're better than me because they're self-reliant and without them I have very poor prospects." I turned things around by joining the military. Having handouts and not having to work was okay but it leads to resentment, and if you're not lucky enough to feel you're as good and worthy as the handout-givers, you start feeling worthless and stop trying. Ever see signs in national parks warning "don't feed the animals" ? A lot of park-goers believe that's because human food is bad for the animals. That's only part of it. The parks do not want the animals to become dependent on handouts. They want the animals to always get their food the normal way -- hunting for it, working for it. NOT getting handouts. Once an animal (or a person) becomes accustomed to handouts, they stop working hard, or hunting/foraging in the animal case -- just wait for the handouts.