Elpacho

Good points although your ideas are sometimes a little jumbled. And the issue is not as simple at you make out.

We have a problem of competitiveness in the U.S. stemming from people not being economically mobile. We waste talent that would increase our prosperity enormously.

We want to leave the most we can to the free market and have decisions made at as local a level as possible (less of the top down decisions that say Bernie Sanders would have). At the same time we need to invest in our human capital across the board and to do this we have public school systems etc.

We have an enormous problem of disparity of opportunity that creates the disfunction of both society and government. Crazy things start happening such as destruction of our democracy (or in Britain, Brexit).

To counter this (not to make everyone equal) but to get the best out of all Americans, a basic income probably makes sense. It would free the markets and capitalism to do the things that you describe.

Many thanks. Best to you.