> just only 20 years ago, basic communication (the Internet) wasn't on that list

Communication was; in the U.S., phone service was subsidized for rural consumers, for example. Now Internet is the requirement.

> What amounts to minimum requirements seems to be growing, and can't possibily be supplied indefinitely to people ala basic income.

It's great that it's growing; I want the world and society to advance, not stagnate in the state it was 20 years ago. We're much better off than people 100 years ago (or 20 years ago), and it's on us to pass on that legacy and make sure the people 100 years from now are doing even better.

Income and wealth are growing and have been almost continuously since WWII. The U.S. in 2017 is the wealthiest, highest-earning nation in the history of the world, with ~$90 trillion in wealth and ~$18 trillion in income. Taxes relative to income are at historical lows. The notion of scarcity in public goods is not based on fact; though of course there are limits, we are nowhere near them.

You treat people as some sort of adversary. How much productivity and innovation can be unleashed by a well educated healthy population not reduced to fighting for basic survival.

This is a future that capitalism with its self congratulatory 'winners' and survival of the fittest race to the bottom cannot envision or enable.

On the contrary it actively thwarts these possibilities by empowering and creating incentives for a self absorbed minority to sustain a system that benefits the top layer.

Human beings are not a cost, they are an asset.

it's funny we now expect both parents to work but then childcare isn't on the list of basic needs. by definition a minimum wage job can't afford to pay for child care without some kind of help.