Some things in Life are Free

The Big Debate
seems to be between whether the government can intervene in the constant issue of some people are more educated, serious, motivated, intelligent, relentless, ideological, ethnic, who by their natural instincts, education, training, effort, dedication and perserverance tend to leverage the remaining humans into service (to survive).  The process viewed from a historical perspective really resembles slavery, the Company Store, subjugation, monopoly etc..  During the 1960's authors like Vance Packard discussed the inevitable leisure class  that would be the by-product of computers and machines that raise productivity as population increases.  It was projected that it wouldn't take nearly as large a workforce as time went on, and that the remaining population would need to be subsidized from the perspective that work not being available for all, those who stepped out of the way to let others have the "good jobs" should be given subsidies greater than poverty, allowing the gifted to perform the necessary tasks.

Lets be clear about history here. Labor of women in the home , or for that matter, man in the home
has never been considered in the world of finances.  Somehow their labor is relegated to the same consideration as slave labor which remains off the books, but has to be managed.  In the factory model only productive work in the factory is compensated.  Expenses of the home are not Tax Deductible.  One is tempted to ask, Why?  That's just the way it is, just like Slavery.

The desire among the 1% class is to minimize the impact of all the "labor" needed to run the world to a minimum lifestyle.  The relocation of labor to areas of sleepy low paying places wherever they are found tends to wake up the world to the presence of this activity, this mongering for paying less.  As people are awakened to modern lifestyles, insofar as pay levels allow the workers to participate as consumers it will work.  The suppression of the minimum wage,  the choking of salaries is very limited thinking as the power of the economy depends on exchange from the bottom up.  If the bottom is dead the top is feeling like these millions of poor people are being supported by them.  Those who have totally forget that the earth, the sun, the clean air were here before their existence.  They forget that the vast continuum of life is given by forces beyond their control and certainly beyond their ownership (the very idea that humans can own the earth is quite ego-centric).  If the whole process is just savage competition with vast poverty on one side and luxurious excess on the other, aren't we missing the point.  The beauty available with a loving consciousness. Which I actually think we all crave rather than making up s story about scarcity rather than abundance and the possibility improved distribution.