I like the Geo-Libertarian idea of basic income. Thomas Paine wrote something similar in Agrarian Justice. It basically goes like this: 1) Governments have c

I like the Geo-Libertarian idea of basic income. Thomas Paine wrote something similar in Agrarian Justice. It basically goes like this: 1) Governments have claimed a monopoly on the land and resources. Basically through military conquest at some point in the past. 2) Before there was any government people were able to use the land freely. So basically they were robbed of something that they could previously use. 3) Fairness dictates that compensation for such a loss must be made. 4) Charge people for the use of land, resources, airwaves, etc. 5) This income goes to all people in the country equally. This type of basic income does not violate any economic reality that I am aware of. Now, it will not be enough to so that people can choose to live without working. Such thinking is anti-reality. Absent work, decay (entropy) is the law of the universe. This can not be changed. But it will be fair compensation for no longer having access to the land resources that hunter / gatherers had.