Take the wealth of the entire world at this time . Divide it equally among 7 billion people . How much money does each person get ? Can you deal outside of strawmen , or is reality too scary ? There is nothing more lazy that socialismUBI isn ' t socialism ? The workers wouldn ' t own the means of production . The businesses would still own the profits , they ' d just pay more taxes . If you cut the military budget in half , and create a tax system with negative tax brackets , you ' d have more than enough money . Once again , not everyone would earn the same , but the base would be higher than it is right now . You could get rid of the bureaucracy around social safety nets , and leave it all to the IRS . Stop going on rants about socialism next time and try to focus on the topic at hand .