A Citizen’s Dividend by its very nature can never run out. It will generate economic rent as long as society and human activity exist.
This economic rent can be collected and distributed back to the people. This in turn encourages people to do more trade, commerce and the like.
Which means even more economic rent is generated. It’s all part of a positive feedback loop that ensures everyone gets a steady and practically endless source of income.
Winston Churchill was among many figures throughout history who understood the importance and potential of economic rent.
In a 1909 speech that was addressed to the House of Commons, he delivered his idea of a budget “package” he authored designed to help end poverty in the UK. Part of this package was a proposal to collect some of the economic rent.
This isn’t a very well-known aspect of his life, despite how prescient he was being. Looking back at history, one will find that economic rent collection and redistribution isn’t just a far-fetched or eccentric idea, after all, seeing as how even mainstream figures saw it as important and viable.