I certainly didn&#x27;t assume you&#x27;re incompetent.<p>I was a little baffled by your initial complaint about people who want to raise the working conditions for people who take ad-hoc labor, like you.  You said you &quot;worry&quot; about them, that you can&#x27;t take a regular job, and so on.<p>Great, fine, I certainly don&#x27;t want you to have to take a regular job.  I think it&#x27;s great if you can work a few hours here, pick up a few extra bucks as your health permits, and so on.  I have no interest in taking that away from you.  I doubt very many people do, unless it&#x27;s to slough off the work onto people who are more economically hard up than you.<p>I was, however, baffled by your implication that the way things are now (you making an average of $12 an hour with ad-hoc work, instead of some larger amount) is the best things can be.<p>I think you&#x27;re wrong about that, but it is, of course, certainly true if we insist that everything&#x27;s as good as it can be.<p>And you&#x27;re right, there&#x27;s no magic money solution.  Basic income is one, and there&#x27;s several different models that get tossed around, including just cutting everyone a check (so hey, you make the $12&#x2F;hour patched together <i>on top</i> of the basic income).<p>But if you think I&#x27;m arguing because I think you&#x27;re a dumb cripple or whatever, no, get over it, I&#x27;m arguing because you typed some otherwise thoughtful stuff and I just don&#x27;t agree with all of it.