Here's an even more gross simplification: All that great free stuff you want ? You will pay for it. Probably in ways you didn't imagine. Go look at the econ

Here's an even more gross simplification: All that great free stuff you want ? You will pay for it. Probably in ways you didn't imagine. Go look at the economic flows (not the details, just the gross flows of resources) between master and servant in pre-revolutionary france ... now compare those resource flows to those proposed in a utopian "minimum basic income" society. Those resource flows are the same. EDIT: to be clear, I am not knee-jerk-opposed to MBI schemes - I find them somewhat intriguing. I'm just wary of them because they introduce a dynamic that ends up being very similar to other dynamics that have, in the past, been quite bad.