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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @02:01PM
It's probably pretty much exactly where we're headed.
What exactly do people think's going to happen after basic income becomes a thing? It's going to lead to achievement and consequently income inequality that will would make the kings and peasants of times past look socially indistinguishable. One group will become lazy and dependent on handouts while another group gains the riches to independently operate entire fleets and run independent planetary colonization efforts. Oh and nobody will care about the 'takers' because they literally have all their basic needs taken care of so it is provable that any failure to achieve is their fault and their fault alone.
People are so myopic on things like this. We always see the exact same pattern on all sort of social programs. They don't push people up but instead subsidize a downward inertia. We passed all these social programs during the 'war on poverty' try to solve poverty. It's done absolutely nothing to combat poverty which is now even higher than in the late 60s just after all these programs passed. All that's changed is that we've now got 40million people that now literally would starve to death without government handouts and so they vote accordingly. Woot progress!