Friedman smart guy fo sho but had his fuck ups he happily admitted to but the point is
What is your problem with a "Citizens Dividend"?.
Maybe you can start with your philosophy of the human experience, the cosmic joke, etc,..
didn't take long:
Milton Friedman proposed the idea of a negative income tax (NIT), which effectively sanctioned a basic income for all, in his book Capitalism and Freedom published in 1962. In his 1964 State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced legislation to fight the "war on poverty".
Universal basic income - Wikipedia