The problem with that is it incentivizes more and more people to just stop working, and instead become dependent on the guaranteed income, government, and the f

The problem with that is it incentivizes more and more people to just stop working, and instead become dependent on the guaranteed income, government, and the fewer and fewer who create the wealth necessary to fund that guaranteed income. Someone has to pay for it, and they will extract a price in power. Ultimately you end up with a large portion of the populace dependent, and hence politically powerless, undermining democracy and our republic. The real answer is, as usual, the harder one - continually improving education and access to education for the lower and middle segments, breaking cycles of poverty (and violence where applicable), eradicating Learned Helplessness [1], building better tools that enable more people to adapt to a new environment where machines have supplanted humans for some tasks but not all (FOSS and 3D printing being particularly interesting here). It's a hard, imperfect task that will never be finished, but better than making the entire world completely dependent on a few. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness