What do you take labor surplus to mean?<p>If it means that the economy is sufficiently productive without everyone working, a basic income solves the problem that some people have no access to the economy (by dictating some basic level of access).<p>(Of course the economy isn&#x27;t sufficiently productive today, there are huge swaths of Americans that would like to increase their consumption, never mind less wealthy areas of the world. The reality is probably that we do have surplus labor at some levels of per job productivity though.)