If it helps for future reference: I think people missed the core idea and latched onto your expression of some of the implications. Introducing it with the same "owes you a living" meme that spawned it backfired. People have their own reactions to that line, and were triggered by that, rather than grokking core idea of shifting from an "owing" mentality to an "able to give" mentality.

Plus, some people automatically start thinking in terms of systems of government, rather than in terms of the individual application of a personal philosphy. It's the latter approach that enables the "giving" culture to get strated and grow, but in the meantime the former approach has to coexist with it to handle all the people who haven't switched over yet (and the many who never will).