[jschwartzi]

Basic income is a solution that assigns value to human life outside of its ability to build widgets in exchange for pay. An economic system which values productivity over all and which totally devalues human life is disgustingly cruel and inhumane. I would not want to live in such a world, even with a guarantee that I would be among the productive elites and not the unproductive masses.

There must be some solution that doesn't involve letting more than half of us starve to death or die in meaningless conflicts.