> Imagine 'receiving' a ticket for a lifetime (inflation-adjusting & compounding) $350k income-per-year like that from someone else who actually worked for it (or guess what, inherited it himself), would you ever have to work?
Don't folks of your politics normally argue that with a basic income people would still work?
> Would this create a system not just with unequal outcomes, but with inequality by design?
Nature is unequal by design. Unless you're arguing for some Harrison Bergeron-type future where we scar attractive people and literally cut tall people off at the knees, there's nothing you can do about it. What you're proposing is the financial equivalent.
> And we can keep that to large amounts, like say $100k.
$100,000 is not a large amount: it's 1-5 years' salary (or less!).
Don't folks of your politics normally argue that with a basic income people would still work?
> Would this create a system not just with unequal outcomes, but with inequality by design?
Nature is unequal by design. Unless you're arguing for some Harrison Bergeron-type future where we scar attractive people and literally cut tall people off at the knees, there's nothing you can do about it. What you're proposing is the financial equivalent.
> And we can keep that to large amounts, like say $100k.
$100,000 is not a large amount: it's 1-5 years' salary (or less!).
> But there have to be limits
Why?