And think of the world we would create if this were the norm.

The majority of people everywhere are ambitious, industrious and want to be useful. So you'd end up with a world full of people doing creative things ... and entire groups of people doing creative, inventive and useful things together.

They'd figure out things like building space elevators, new industrial technologies, the cure for cancer (which would probably be redundant because everyone would automatically be able to afford to take care of their health), stabilize global warming, create alternate forms and sources of energy and begin the process of exploring space beyond our own system.

Instead, we have a world where a hundred people own all the wealth, a billion people who think they're wealthy but aren't and 7 billion people struggling to get by .... and all of them fighting to become king or queen of the world.

While I agree with the mindset, I share the same view, some of your details are kinda...barbaric

permanent private living space of at least 80sqft

That's the size where prison cells float around. Iirc there was a study done that concluded that for an average person to remain mentally healthy they need at least 3-400 sq ft per person. Allowances must be made for families and partners

even if only some flavorless nutritional paste

Shit, that's been widely considered to be cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners. There's a balance between "not even good enough for prisoners" and "Lobsters every night"

if you have no ambition in life beyond sitting in that little room staring at the wall and eating soylent

Yeaaa there's plenty of other ways to entice people to work or to aspire. You don't need to make people eat flavorless paste, just luxury material goods alone would be enough. Like a decent smartphone, games, attractions (amusement parks, circuses etc), electronics etc. Plus most people want to work anyways just to have something to do

If we enacted your plan as-is, the suicide rate would skyrocket lol

Imagine my shock when I checked how much 80 square feet are.

I’ve always believed that everyone should be able to have, for free, a permanent private living space of at least 80sqft, a reasonably comfortable bed, access to a toilet and shower and associated toiletries, clothing suitable for the weather, water and food (even if only some flavorless nutritional paste), and access to medical care both as-needed and on a regular basis. if you have no ambition in life beyond sitting in that little room staring at the wall and eating soylent, then so be it, for a society to provide any less is immoral

Since around 2004, getting really deep in some leisurely research rabbit holes, I've maintained the assertion that everybody should be able to have, for free, spaceships of their own, that are clean ZPE powered, can do zero-inertia propulsion (~ that's all the instant acceleration, instant stopping, high speed sharp angle turns, stuff ~), can sustain human life indefinitely, can print another of itself instantly, and safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home.

... And that we could have had spaceships for everybody since the 1930s, and it's not so wild if one simply follows the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla's time (stopping by things like the Sonora Aero Club from 1850 along the way), and you can see the early working prototypes of the technology before the wright brothers' first flight.

That, and, the abundant space on earth.

... Y'know we could increase the carrying capacity of earth to over 300 trillion, still with abundant spacious nature, with vast forest arcologyscapes. Much of the same tech that avails all space, helps us accomplish such constructive feats of better resource management on earth.

No cull necessary.

We have so much headroom, with proper resource management.

We have so much headroom, without the parasitic crooks keeping us down, just so they have "more". Blithering idiots in the psychopathic circlejerk, yet to evolve to realise they'd have even more yet, in availing abundance and emancipation. They'd not be living the stressful fear laden life, striving to keep us down, and keep us from turning on them for keeping us down. Do they have spaceships yet? And the reassurance no one is trying to take theirs because everybody has their own too?

Spaceships for everybody.

(I say that a lot. I mean it like it encapsulates everything you proposed we each should have, and more, to the very best of human innovation.)

In other words you want the homless to have a day pass from prison.

There is already free and public media access through libraries.

Are you ready to work and spend almost your whole salary to satisfy the needs of those who don't? Because work creates all those amenities. If they don't work, means you need to work more and results of your work be distributed.

(Jokingly) Hey! Get (that meme template) out yo gotdamn mouth!

Lol same

I'd argue that our social capabilities are our nature, rather than an exception to nature.

So nearly got an upvote from me, but then you had to ruin it with a false dichotomy. Better ways

Oh, and also, I just caught before clicking reply, "given the right to live" is a moved goal post.

There are a great many things I would like to do, but don't do, simply because it is not economical. Even when I find employment doing something I enjoy, I am forced to do it at an increasingly fast pace, and I know that what I'm making is low quality garbage that will be discarded quickly. How can one be expected to take pride in their work under those circumstances?

Capitalism murders your soul, and blames you for being soulless.

Was it the cosmic being, or some aliens pretending (or being mistranslated) to be god?

Still... either way, it's still wrong.

My roommate hard at work drinking energy drinks and playing HoI4

My therapist tells me everyone is doing their best, even the housemate that leaves dirty dishes all over the house and never flushes the toilet. I grapple with this on the regular.

Does make the best of UBI advocacy pretty tight.

Well, I think we are on track with the entertainers part, at least.

And then due to a rounding error, there were still some admin bureaucrats around, who took what they didn't understand, through the filter of entertainers, from the scientists and engineers, and said that what the engineers had built meant everybody didn't need to do their non-bullshit [Edit: (and bullshit)] jobs any more.

Oops. Why did I bother writing that. Should have got an "A.I." (LLM) to write it for me. Of course! Silly me.