What to do with billions of useless humans ?
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I have been thinking about this a bit along with the basic minimum wage.
It would also seem that we would need a universal "kickstarter" type clearinghouse to vote on projects that should get done. You would have to login and vote on a project say, once a week to get your basic funding, and you could volunteer of build things or do research to earn credits for travel.
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