Have you lived, worked, or interacted with people who have been on long term welfare? What works in other countries can't be transferred over and work here like people think they can. Reform? Sure! I'm all up for it. In fact check my comment history about 6 months back and you'll see that I'm actually the one that suggested paying people a minimum income for being peaceful, since 100 years from now most jobs will be automated and the unemployment rate will skyrocket to over 50%. I have since abandoned that plan after careful consideration that things don't work out the way we intelligent human calculators think they will. Adjusting numbers on paper doesn't take into account for primitive human behavior.

I know we here at Hacker News are entrepreneurs and are dead set on trying 100 new crazy ideas of which 99 will fail and cost investors hundreds of millions and 1 will succeed and exit, ipo, or fizzle out in 5 years. We're so crazy we even try ideas that have already failed 12 times over thinking we're going to do something different this time. Humanity doesn't change as much as you think. You can't take the human out of the human. And this plan for giving away money or housing or food (which has already been tried numerous times) is dead on delivery.