Thank you for asking.<p>It operates on the assumption that because I am not wealthy yet, I am an incompetent dolt who has no hope of becoming wealthy. Giving me a basic income is highly likely to close doors, not open them.<p>Getting rich from your own efforts is extremely challenging, but the process changes who you are. You learn something important and you forge important ties along the way. Wealth grows out of power. Power does not grow out of wealth. Giving people money instead of a means to earn it is a means to erode their ability to access actual power. It is a means to disenfranchise people.<p>It may be done with good intentions, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.<p>I find it insulting. I was STAR student and a National Merit Scholarship winner in high school. I have mostly not been taken very seriously on Hacker News. I have mostly been treated dismissively. Giving me a basic income is much, much more likely to entrench the barriers I experience to trying to resolve my problems and figure out how to earn my own.<p>When I was homemaker, I never figured out how to make money online. I also couldn&#x27;t figure it out while working for a Fortune 500 company. I didn&#x27;t figure it out until I became homeless.<p>When people are still able to eat in spite of the fact that what they are doing doesn&#x27;t work, they tend to not bother to do the very hard work involved in changing. They tend to not want to make the uncomfortable choices.<p>You are talking about the principle of &quot;boiling a frog slowly&quot; and applying it to all of society. To me, it looks like a doomsday scenario.