People have been conditioned to equate wage labor with morality; anything that can be cast as weakening this is immediately politically suspect. From a policy s

People have been conditioned to equate wage labor with morality; anything that can be cast as weakening this is immediately politically suspect. From a policy standpoint, as opposed to a political one, I've never heard a rational objection to a basic income. I'm not a believer in the Marxist doctrine of a false consciousness, so when I say "conditioned" I don't mean "by the faceless cabal"; as the child of an anthropologist, I've long understood that culture is entirely sufficient as an explanation.