There are several things that I think it is important for you to consider before you actually consider the proposal. This isn't an all inclusive list, but it's a few things to think about while contemplating the proposal.
Social Benefits
Every kind of benefit a person in our current system receives comes from an individual agency. Food Stamps / SNAP, help with housing, help with college, help with healthcare, help with job training, etc. Each comes from it's own agency that doles out the money assigned to those causes. Each agency has staff to pay, utilities, buildings, etc. meaning that a good portion of the money earmarked for those causes ends up paying for the administration of those agencies. This is very inefficient, considering today's technology could easily automatically cut and mail a check and be run in a small office. It's often an overly complicated process, with multiple layers of employees with no real function other than double checking the signatures on forms and passing it to the next step. I look at the social services in my own county as an example. An exceptionally large building, currently undergoing renovations. Hundreds of staff, the simple ticket system replaced by expensive computer kiosks and large screen HDTVs all over the wall displaying the next ticket number. You take in a form and there's an employee that takes the form. Then there's an employee that gathers the forms and puts them in the boxes of the various workers. Then the various workers make sure the signatures are in the right places and enter your answers on their screen before passing it on to a supervisor. This is hundreds of full time employees in a single county, and these are well paid employees. You take 100 employees making 35k per year and that's 3.5 million dollars a year in a single county just to process people getting an average of what, $250 or so per month in food stamps? When combined with every other agency distributing every other form of government aid, you begin to see the picture that I'd say at least 1/3 of money allotted to aid programs goes into the administration of those programs.
Automation
Automation in our current system is a terrifying prospect for the average person. Look at new things popping up like Amazon Go, a grocery store with 2 or 3 employees that do re-stocking and cleaning with everything else being automated. They don't even have registers, just sensors that see what you grab and automatically charge you for it. Or think about the transportation industry, and just how many people rely on driving trucks for their income. What is going to happen when the self driving car tech becomes self driving semi's? And that's just scratching the surface. A common argument I hear is that old jobs will fade but new ones will be created for designing, programming, and maintaining those machines and automated systems. In a sense this is true, but overall it is flawed. One person can do regular maintenance for a few trucks in a fleet. Since most of them already have maintenance staff, it would simply be a quick seminar existing maintenance staff take when they transition. So the driver jobs will go away, they may hire on a trainer or two to show the other maintenance people how to maintain the self driving components, but that's it. If a robot takes the place of 5 employees, and one person can handle the maintaining of 10 or so robots, then 10 robots takes away 50 jobs and creates one.
There is no way around it, automation is coming closer and closer. More and more is going to be automated, and you cannot stand in the way of technological advancement. It would be wrong to do so. Progress moves forward, so rather than fight it we need to accommodate the changes. In our current system, this is impossible. In our current system, automation is horrifying rather than a goal to look forward to.
Poverty and Homelessness
Even with the amount of money used in our current system to battle poverty and homelessness, as well as many other pressing issues, the problem still exists. There are still homeless people, still poverty, still people living in conditions most people cannot even fathom. I have lived in these conditions before, it is so much worse than you can imagine if you haven't lived it. It is impossible to explain and put into words the sheer feeling of hopelessness that comes with it. Our current system does make efforts to solve those problems, but always falls short.
Social Tension
Social tension is an important factor. With our current system there is growing social strife because frankly those without are tired of being without and those with are tired of hearing about it. A person who is living successfully and comfortably doesn't understand that the same opportunity is not available equally, and they think the poor only have themselves to blame. The poor see that those who aren't have it too easy, and they don't see that they've worked for what they have just as much as the poor people. They just happened to get lucky. Then the shrinking middle class and the growing divide in income, people are tense. It is stressful, people are getting angrier and angrier, and the overall happiness of our country is a lot lower than it should be for us to be a healthy functioning society. People don't purse their passions because they're afraid if they lose their job they'll starve or become homeless. People pass up business opportunities, decline starting their own businesses, dream about advancing their education but don't have the time to do so, etc. This is going to lead to stagnation and social discord, more rioting and violence, and who knows how bad it could potentially get when also combined with the exceptionally bitter political divide.
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