Oh my god, you spoiled little shits…

“What if people didn’t die because they are poor?”

“OMG you’re so spoiled!!!”

????

Omg wow it’s almost as if it costs something to procure a good or service?

And we produce enough food to feed everyone, yet there are still people going hungry. It’s a broken system. 

So who pays the producers? And who pays the transporters? And how do we distribute? And how is there incentive for maximum growth?

There are many ways. Here is my favorite:

The wikipedia article on Basic Income.

The Reddit for Basic Income

Basic Income.Org

Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income?

The Economic Case for a Universal Basic Income (Part 1 of a series)

How Universal Basic Income Will Save Us From the Robot Uprising

Basic Income, which is pretty awesome, in fact. You should read up on it.

Basic Income leaves the market as it is, but all citizens are given a subsistence level income automatically by the government.  People continue to work to earn above that “bare minimum survival” mark.

This system has been implemented in various places and everywhere that it is we see LOWER inflation, HIGHER economic growth, and improved standards of living. 

In fact, some economists theory that a Basic Income system could be cheaper than current welfare systems under the right circumstances. AND studies suggest that systems like this IMPROVE economic activity and LOWER inflation.A study of a pilot project implemented in 2008 and 2009 in the Namibian village of Omitarafound that economic activity actually increased, particularly through the launch of small businesses, and reinforcement of the local market by increasing households’ buying power.[source]

In studies of the Mincome experiment in rural Dauphin, Manitoba in the 1970s, the only two groups who worked significantly less were new mothers, and teenagers working to support their families. New mothers spent this time with their infant children, and working teenagers put significant additional time into their schooling.[source] A final report was never issued, but Manitoban economist Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009 which was published in 2011.[source][source] In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidents of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse.[source]Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.[source][source]

“In 1982, Alaska began providing a partial basic income annually to all its residents. Until the first dividend, Alaska had a higher rate of inflation than the rest of the United States. But ever since the dividend was introduced, Alaska has had a lower rate of inflation than the rest of the United States. A partial basic income was also provided in Kuwait in 2011, when every citizen was given $4,000. Fears of increasing inflation were rampant, as Kuwait already had high inflation. Instead of bad inflation getting worse, it actually got better, decreasing from record highs to under 4 percent.”[source]

In 2010, two pilots were launched in the northern state of Madhya Pradesh in India.[source] The study found an increase in economic activity as well as an increase in savings, an improvement in housing and sanitation, improved nutrition, less food poverty, improved health and schooling, greater inclusion of the disabled in society and a lack of frivolous spending.[source]

In 2011, Iran implemented a basic income grant in order to compensate for the removal of government subsidies on basic goods such as petrol and food. Inflation is falling and the economy is improving[source]

So, ya know. There’s all that.