America needs to work for everyone.  If you are motivated and smart and able bodied then you can probably make things work, and that is a great thing.  Those who are disengaged, not all that smart, and or disabled also need to get by somehow.<p>Possibly the best analogy is to literacy.  Getting our society to 90%+ literacy is extremely expensive and dominates public accounts in most US jurisdictions, but it is worth that investment many times over.<p>So also transitioning from work being the only recognized value to humanity itself being enough is going to be extremely expensive, but it will be worth it.  Perhaps most important to remember is that those in need will not horde their gifts, but immediately circulate them in order to keep going, so the humiliating confiscation of taxation will result in swarms of new potential customers thus energizing enterpreneurship.