&gt; Unless, of course, you propose for the public to feed them through the process, at which point we&#x27;ve got basic income, so we may as well get rid of the retraining part entirely.<p>Why are we getting rid of the retraining part? We still need people to be qualified to do those jobs.<p>Obviously we don&#x27;t need to separately subsidize food and shelter specifically for students if we have a basic income, and a basic income is a Good Idea. But it isn&#x27;t Not Capitalism. By all accounts it&#x27;s more aligned with capitalism than the ridiculous system of &quot;subsidies for everything but not if you get a[nother] job&quot; that we have now.