&gt; Whether you make $40k, $100k, or $500k, the $10k isn&#x27;t there to prove &quot;additional income support&quot;. The system could be set up so that after basic income is implemented, your disposable income is the same as it was before--people making $40k wouldn&#x27;t have $10k in free money to spend, because their taxes would go up $10k a year, for example.<p>&gt; So if you make over $100k a year, you might be taxed $15k more than you were before, but you would also receive $10k.<p>So basically as a middle class person, I don&#x27;t benefit at all, I may even lose money, but some kid who has no income and wants to live in his parents basement gets $10k&#x2F;yr for contributing nothing to society? Am I understanding this correctly?<p>The upper class won&#x27;t care - this is pennies to them, but this is going to bite the middle class badly and completely change their incentives to avoiding getting housing and living as cheaply as possible to minimize or eliminate work.<p>You always have to think very carefully about the incentives you create with something like this. This seems to create very bad incentives to me, incentives which would have caused me to make very, very different decisions in life drawing me away from any sort of productivity in society.<p>I&#x27;m not strictly against this idea, but as you&#x27;ve presented it, I can&#x27;t see a way this would ever be implemented, how would you sell it to the middle class?