Continuing automation may make this inevitable... even here.

[Minimalist]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/finland-mulling...me-1578116

Finland mulling to test effects of paying basic income

The government will pay €560 to 2,000 randomly chosen working-age residents in an experiment that will begin in 2017.

The republicunts will all have a diarrhea hemorrhage.

[vorlon13]

I'd like to see the principals of homeopathy applied to social spending somewhere/someday.

Like, for instance, announce with big fan fare a totally new concept in economic stimulus/societal support/financial security and then send some random pensioner in Piscataway New Jersey a check for $5.13.

And then stand back and watch the economic tidal wave wash o'er the land.