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The difficulty with a basic income is that it provides no necessity to strive, and it does not incentivize effort. Just cranked through Tom Hartmann's "Screwed" and one of the points he makes is that liberty without opportunity is tyranny. You can have all the rights in the world but if you are not in a position to better yourself , you're in the same treadmill as if you were in prison. He's a bleeding-heart liberal all the way, but his basic rights are: - livable minimum wage - free education through college matriculation - single-payer healthcare - strong labor unions …in other words, Germany.