“…who would need it?”..
Everyone.. not so much the Basic income, perhaps, for many or most.. and not welfare distributions…
..but inclusion in the process of money creation is an inalienable enfranchisement in the global economic system…
..as far as I can tell, blockchains either don’t scale to seven or nine billion accounts, and/or haven’t proven immune to attack yet.. and you can not be included if you are destitute, (which sort of skips the primary objective)
..so in the mean time, to get accustomed to abundance, we should allow each enfranchisement