So ... you haven't actually described what condition you're discussing, and if that's poverty, precarity, homelessness, inequality, ... One of the reasons I strongly suggest that as the first link on the chain.
That said ... I suspect we agree on at least some bases. People don't want income in much the same sense that people don't want backups. Users of technological systems want restores. People want the ability to satisfy their needs.
We live in a financialised society, in which for the majority of people, the means to the necessities of life (food, clothing, shelter --- you'll find these in Plato's Republic, in Mencius's writings, in Smith, in Marx, in Maslow) is through payment-based transactions. As opposed to self-sufficiency (at best rare in virtually all human history, far more likely nonexistant), tribal provision, socially-recognised entitlements, etc.
There are people for whom this simply does not work. The very young, the very old, the phyisically ill, the mentally ill, addicts. Also those oppressed or excluded from societies. The idea that the market serves all is ... curiously unsupported.
The "society of abundance" concept is one I'm familiar with. I have issues with that as well --- we have not entirely solved the problem of production, though I'd also argue that that problem is in many ways not what it's presented to be. There is necessary work which is unappealing and often pushed off to those least able to avoid it. And there's much that's unhealthy about even some of the best and most desired jobs (see this bit on burnout from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248787 ... itself a frequent HN topic, with 1,322 submissions found: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
My view is that there's probably a multi-factor approach that will be required:
- Some form of income floor, established through a healthy union or labour movement, through a government employer of last resort, and/or a statutory minimum wage. These might be estabished nationwide, or within more regional markets. That last could be a national standard using localised price indices.
- Some major form of housing reform. The notion of a housing supplier of last resort occurred to me some time ago. There is the notion of a Georgian land value tax. Major reforms to evictions should also be part of this.
- Other areas of reform would include healthcare (still a mess within the US); mental health; reform to the police, courts, and penal systems; education; rights for workers, renters, women, underprivileged minorities, and others; and addressing systemic inequality. That's just scratching the surface.
- All of this in a context in which the political and media systems are extraordinarily dysfunctional. (How individual readers interpret this will be ... interesting.)
- And where there are a growing set of pressing global existential risks, most endogenous to humans --- we are our own greatest threat, rather than facing external threats, at present.