Taxation is theft.

I agree.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=United+States&country2=Brazil

Supporting a family of 5 in the states unassisted on a single minimum wage would be living in abject poverty. 

This may sound messed up but if we want to achieve basic income then we should probably start dictating a person's occupation ... 

I feel as if civilization is too optimized for 'happiness' rather than 'profit' which is a big detriment quality of life. If we ever want sustainable minimum guranteed living standards then labour needs to start matching demands, not the other way around ... 

The only reason why the rich keeps amassing more wealth is cause there's too many poor suckers out there who trying to chase their own dreams instead of framing themselves as a net contributor to society ... 

We would have a much better civilization if 70% of our population was either studying science/engineering (these specialties are always in demand since they either increase productivity or quality of life) or having occupation in those fields rather than just 30% of the population carrying the rest ... 

If government has to be the one to provide then it's citizens need to start learning or training hard for these high paying professions and starting making a profit for a government to enable programs such as basic income, healthcare and social security ... 

There has to be some sort of compromise if that's going to be the case ... 

Well it sucks for those to be left behind since they can't keep up ... (I guess we'll need brain tissue/genetic enhancement or chip implants to get the common human smart enough.)

The sooner we can have the vast majority of our population workforce consist of either scientist or engineer the better it is for the human race ... 

yes... but surely the guys behind the study didn't forget that little detail... come on... give them some credit...

the answer is in the study, i didn't read it, but i'm sure that if they did the study the gave the answer to that. from another similar thing some people did for my country and from what i remember, the logic behind it is... the corporations that takes huge profits for having robots doing humans work... sooner or later we are going to have little things to work on and the population of the planet is growing... people will need a income from somewhere... a mechanism needs to be put in place so we can live with litle work or none if the person has no skill or talent or is plain useless just because all the works they could do are already being done by someone else... it's like, if you are fine with having a lower standard you can try to live from  the "handout" but if you have more ambition than the regular joe, you can work and add to the "handout" and have a better life. Basic species survival if you look at it in its core.

in one sentence is...
money moving generate more economic growth than money sitting under a matress

Oh yes, let's just give lucrative tax cuts to those poor, oppressed millionaires and billionaires.

Because it worked so well for Kansas!

So those that can't keep up deserve to live miserable lives? Is that what you are saying?

By the time we can just implant chips in people's brains to improve human brain capacity, there will be no need for humans in there at all. Much easier to improve a pure computer than a computer-human hybrid.

Government enforce the will of the people <- government is elected by the people who vote selfishly. There's your invisible hand.

The invisible hand isn't intrisically tied to laissez faire capitalism you know. In fact, the idea of capitalism hadn't even been expressed when Adam Smith coined the term....

And yes, in the medium term, there will be a few things humans will do better, but not enough to employ everyone.

Their private wealth has nothing to do with their company.

There are companies that make several billions in a quarter, they are certainly not struggling to pay their employees. In fact they do everything in their power to use every possible legal loophole to  accumulate more wealth and robbing the state of billions in the process.

And guess how those companies are making money. They are making money off of people who are at the lower end of society. And guess who will profit most by poor people having more money. Exactly, companies.

This system can work when you do it right. It cannot work when you try to defend people who do not need defending and spit on people who need help.

There will come a point when there are fewer work places than there are people. And then you can shove your "if they want money they just need to work" attitude.