I feel like this comment and a lot of other comments deal with a repulsion to this not being a very egalitarian idea, to the point of maybe missing the forest for the trees. The GI bill is awesome and lead/leads to upward mobility that can benefit all. It’s an egalitarian program available to everyone. That’s fantastic and a good thing that we have done.

Other programs like universal income could also be egalitarian and lift all boats, and might be fantastic or a horror show, depending on your stance on motivation and it’s relation to money.

A universal income for geniuses would not be egalitarian but could provide outsized benefits for its cost to society. If the government (us, collectively) own the results and IP, it might pay for itself / run a profit. If it expanded human knowledge faster than without it, it could provide a sort of compounding effect to how fast our societies advance.

I don’t know that these things would happen but they could, which seems worth exploring rather than discarding immediately due to historically-rooted moral systems.