Any time I put forward concepts of a hybrid between socialism, capitalism, UBI, and all of that, there is a lot of push back. While it is possible that it is because my ideas suck, I get the feeling it is more because it doesn’t fit into the worldview of existing systems.

Say, for example, the idea of giving everybody free mattresses. Someone says that is unrealistic, because people would try to sell the beds they receive. Or that fixing income from UBI and jobs with fixed incomes would promote corruption…despite it all about preventing the existence of billionaires and huge wealth gaps. They say it would make people lazy, because there is no reward for working harder. Also, for some reason, eliminating wealth gaps, workers voting on leadership pay rank, and making education a paid job promotes a caste system. And so on.

Mind, there has been helpful input, it is just that many of the criticisms seem to be based on not fitting into what we had.