The idea is that the taxes scale, so for the middle class the tax is negligible. You get $10k, and your taxes are increased by $12k if you&#x27;re making less than $100k.<p>As for teenagers sitting in their parents basement - The thought is that $10k lets them live and do anything they please instead of being tied to a shitty job or their parents basement. In theory they will choose to contribute to society in some way and not just play video games all day.<p>But that is what we need to test - Will people choose to play video games and watch TV all day, or choose something fulfilling and &#x27;productive.&#x27; Then we have to redefine productive, some other comments in this thread speak about that.