Agreed. A minor nitpick about "I'm not sold on universal basic income". I'd argue that what your are proposing is both "universal" and "basic income", it's a v

Agreed. A minor nitpick about "I'm not sold on universal basic income". I'd argue that what your are proposing is both "universal" and "basic income", it's a variation of the usually proposed UBI, that in my opinion tries to deal with one of the main risks of such a system. A percentage of people (even if perhaps small) just doing nothing and the moral effect of that on the rest of the population. I once made a comment in HN along the same lines, local community work..., it made me smile to see in your comment something so similar to what I tried to express, however I'm not a native speaker and the comment was probably not clear enough.