He sees it as the counterpart of productive activity, whether this be past, present, or future. From the youngest to the oldest, every member of society would receive the social income. For Duboin, capitalism, based on exchange, is doomed by the progress of techniques. When goods are produced in abundance, this threatens the whole commercial system in which value is based on scarcity of supply. Duboin proposes to adapt our social organisation to the present state of affairs, taking account of' the abundance of supply.
Productivity needs to be shared equally by all, and distributed in the form of a social income.
Duboin saw social service as the corollary of the social income. Every citizen would be required to work for a certain period to ensure the continuance of abundance socialism. Cash for spending would be distributed, in proportion to annual production, direct to consumers, who would use it as needed. This 'consumer money' would disappear, after use as an instrument of distribution. It would go with a social and political right the basic income, the wage of citizenship.