Anyway, a basic income for the poor wouldn't work on a mass-scale.  There are simply too many inflationary pressures for any amount of macro-level pay-outs to be of any use, really.

What needs to happen is for the means of production to be individualized rather than conglomerated by multi-national corporations.  That is, individuals of various nations need themselves to acquire the resources and develop the means to produce from those resources the products necessary to satisfy their own basic needs.

Reliance on the establishment to ensure an economy conducive to the survival (nevermind actual prosperity) of individuals is, simply, becoming less and less tenable year after year due to ever increasing scarcity (rather than increased abundance) of resources and ever-increasing relative costs of production.

Thus the best thing governments can start doing is to foster alternative means by which persons may pursue their individual survival (and prosperity), ie.  dramatic deregulation of and / or investment in small-scale industries and increased taxation of multi-nationals.   They need to start doing this quickly, before regulators become culpable for genocides resulting from masss-deaths: starvation, mal-nutrition, preventable illnesses, etc..

Good question Simon.

Why is that Zarf, Lizon, etc..?

Abundance is relative. Standards of living are relative. Everything is relative! ^.^

Anyways I already said what I wanted to say on this topic. The whole concept is silly and won't work on a wide scale. Beyond that I see no point in discussing the issue.