So which way is it? Non-workers will be disenfranchised politically, or tyrannously use democracy to assert their power over people who do work? The fact that

So which way is it? Non-workers will be disenfranchised politically, or tyrannously use democracy to assert their power over people who do work? The fact that even in this article both sides are argued points to the fact that there will be some counteracting forces that will stabilize things for at least a while if basic income is implemented. I think that getting concerned about what will happen 10 steps down the line when things could really go either way is a type of premature optimization. I believe it's pretty clear that people _with_ money will have that power, but at some point that money will have to make its way into the hands of more citizens in order to avoid societal collapse. Then when political power needs rebalancing, there will still be a massive amount of people fighting for political power if things go too far one way, and people with a massive amount of wealth to counterbalance them.