&gt; <i>Are you willing to create value for other humans at less than your time is worth? Because that is what you are asking them to do. If it was worth their time we wouldn&#x27;t have to threaten them with pain or death to incentivise them.</i><p>Friend, hunger pain and risk of homelessness are what motivate <i>many</i> people to drag themselves to work. Without that threat, <i>many</i> people choose to be unproductive, and it makes society as a whole poor. If you take too heavily from those who are productive to enable this, it dicencentivises them. This has been demonstrated repeatedly -- in the USSR, in China&#x27;s old system, in Cuba, in the DPRK, in Saudi Arabia (who, with less oil money, are having serious problems), and even in the Internet&#x27;s beloved Denmark ... literally over and over and over.<p>(ref for Denmark, since I know that will be one of the more contentious entries on my list: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;free-universities-and-no-student-loan-debt-is-hurting-denmarks-economy-2014-6" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;free-universities-and-no-stud...</a> )<p>Asking them to take what someone else is willing to give them for their work, without the threat of imprisonment from the government to motivate the giving, is <i>not</i> asking them to work for less than they&#x27;re worth. Quite the contrary, it&#x27;s asking them to work for an amount that exactly reflects the value other humans assign to their labor.