I wonder if you read the above? or just skim read. At the moment I live in a country where over 50% already receive a benefit of some nature and the rest of us.... would never wish to lower our pay packet to that amount.

How much is it? that is a question for another article. Personally, I would take the amount a country spends now plus waste and distribute that overall over 15-year-olds. For New Zealand that is almost 200 a week and enough for a person to ensure they don't starve.... which is the point of the psychological findings, we are now discovering about productivity and intrinsic motivation.

I.e lets say I earn a flat 200k a year. The additional $200 a week is nothing for me, I would probably donate it. This is similar to pensions of today, they are for everyone and even the super rich get them.

Again.... if you read the article, inflation is the point I wish to use to leverage long-term liberty over short-term accessibility to food and shelter.

Since you are obviously in America. Just your military budget alone could give every person $33 a week and do the rest of us a favour. I visit your country often... I could live on food of $33 a week, which you could almost double that with your current social welfare and redundant enterprises. So even a country like America.... could do $60 bucks USD a week, which is almost a hundred for me and I could live on that for 2 months while I got myself in order.

See... socialism is about living on the welfare of others. This is a mass insurance scheme to ensure your needs are met... to allow you to move forward