1) There are increasingly few people in the middle class 2) Very few poor people are lazy bums, in my experience. There "lazy bums" are also sometimes the peop

1) There are increasingly few people in the middle class 2) Very few poor people are lazy bums, in my experience. There "lazy bums" are also sometimes the people creating amazing music, Wikipedia, or other valuable (and un-monetized) cultural products 3) The author didn't specify a time period, simply that given the capital > labor trend, a BI will be necessary if we don't want absolute and complete inequality