Very true. The basic income is an idea that is supported by people who don't seem to understand humans, or who want to take power away from most humans. Basic

Very true. The basic income is an idea that is supported by people who don't seem to understand humans, or who want to take power away from most humans. Basic income is essentially another form of theft from the workers. People resent the rich because they do nothing for their income, but apparently if everybody does nothing for their income then that resentment is magically disappears. That doesn't work in human society. Humans require that others contribute. As the Great Ali said: "Service to others is the price you pay for your room here on earth". The problem the UBI has is that, like the rich, it is unfindable in real terms. Those that produce see the fraud, gather together and politically agitate to have it removed. And you end up with what we have now - a depleted unemployment benefit system, and various small handouts to people others consider 'scroungers'. The actual solution is to expand the definition of 'job', get beyond the neoliberal idea that everybody and everything is a business trying to create profit and implement a Job Guarantee full of activities that deliver social value - allowing people to serve others. Once you do that, then you just pay them the living wage and the system works. From an individual's point of view their experience is that they have a job, one that is matched to their skills and that others consider a useful use of time. If they move jobs to the private sector, they still get a wage of about the same value. But the public spending stops instantly - which gets rid of the need for additional taxation. https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/job-guarantee-jobs-for-the-people-20fdc52f04b8 https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/job-guarantee-jobs-f...