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ELI5: What is the "basic income" movement?
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It's a movement to create something a bit like Social Security, but for everyone. 

Modern society produces a shit-ton of excess resources. In many ways, we could get by without literally everybody working -- unemployment rates, and people on welfare, seem to argue for this. 

The idea is that you have much higher taxes, and then use that tax money to give everyone a basic (shitty appartment with roommates?) standard of living. 

People would then work since they wanted to do something with their life or because they wanted more money than that. 

The proponents see it as a solution to the future where automation may displace most workers permanently, and also that it avoids the problems with modern day welfare where it dissuades people from working, that it is easily defrauded, and needs lots of bureaucracy to get (which poor people have a hard time with.)