People can't really "hear" basic income discussions because they are blinded by their internal assumptions about human nature and the value of humans in general. if one feels some human beings are more valuable than others based on any subjective internal standard, they just can't see past this bias.
The problem is one of awareness and the limits of most people's self awareness. Especially in the developed world where most people live and act as if they exist in a vacuum as a separate entity from the rest of the world. They cannot understand how many human beings contribute to the things they interact with or utilize every day.
They are blinded by their own greed or their own illusion of control. Believing they are manifesting their own destiny with each decision they make and therefore have "earned" the right to specific rewards or punishments. Until we evolve beyond this self-centeredness, people will argue irrationally against equitable distribution of and access to resources.
Glad to see you finally on steemit @scottsantens. Been following you on twitter for a while.
There are a ton of reasons basic income is a brilliant idea, but they've never worked. It's automation that will force our hand. Once more and more jobs get automated faster and faster, it will become increasingly difficult to not see what needs to be done, despite all the blinders in current use. I just hope we can implement it in time to alleviate a great deal of unnecessary suffering.
The point of using machines is to make less work for ourselves. We are made better off by increases in production rather than by work itself.
Spot on, @domenticthomas.
So if we disagree we are "greedy", yet you are the one that claims to have a right to other's property? And you want it for free no less. Yea That's not greedy. Please post your Steemit log in so your Steem resources can be equitably redistributed. .lol