"that will most likely make dirty and simple work look extremely unattractive. It will drive up the prices for the kind of work that we are normally used to pay

"that will most likely make dirty and simple work look extremely unattractive. It will drive up the prices for the kind of work that we are normally used to paying next to nothing for. That wont be politically popular at all" Yes! Exactly. This is the failure that people don't seem to understand; the idea that taxes pay for welfare, that it's a simple redistribution. The reality is much more complex. We deliberately make living without labouring difficult so that the rich get their luxuries. You cannot have extreme wealth without poor people; you need an army of little ones to do anything that a robot can't do yet. Your taxes do not pay anywhere close to the amount you benefit from the existence of the working classes.