Comment by theptip

> Also, if all of your income comes from dividends, you have to be able to handle considerable volatility, even across the whole market. At least 2x. That's not acceptable as a basic income scheme. People will starve.

Good point -- but if this became a significant problem, then one could imagine purchasing a hedging service to smooth out the peaks and troughs. That would have to be considered when fleshing out this portion of the OP:

> We’d also need to figure out rules about transferability and borrowing against this equity.