For the already affluent, the principle of a negative tax is well established. This program needs to be expanded to include those denied their share of the nation's productive jobs. The sharing of wealth is controlled by symbolism and rhetoric. Corporate socialism grants large sums of public funds to billion dollar corporations in grandiose terms of entrepreneurs and rights. A much smaller level of support, to a much larger number of people, is granted begrudgingly under the rhetoric of welfare, incompetence, and laziness.
Power means control of the thought through control of language.
For their own protection, the powerful label others as incompetent, lazy, or even dishonest while using all the positive labels for themselves. Thus the powerful intercept ever more of the wealth produced by the efficiency gains of technology. As each class knows they work hard to maintain or improve their status in life, and fears dropping into a lower class, this rhetoric chains the mind.