If we really could have a system where we could just stop working and have basic income that would be the great liberation of the masses.<p>But all these basic income proposals require people to pay taxes to support us.<p>I&#x27;ve lived on 20k a year with almost no required work. And I&#x27;ve lived on 200k with a job. I&#x27;d pick the former everyday and twice on Sunday.<p>So I don&#x27;t have some moral problem with not working. The problem is the tax base would implode and there wouldn&#x27;t be anyone left paying the bills. The system would collapse.<p>Maybe if software actually eats the world but not until then.