A Flexible Minimum Income

I was reading an interview with Pablo Iglesias, the 'caudillo' of the Spanish political group Podemos, which means We Can, in which he was talking about a minimum and a maximum income set by the State. Apart from the obvious flaws that more State means more bureaucracy, more police, more prisons, the idea was interesting in that Iglesias called for a flexible minimum wage. To the elderly this might suggest a return to Rationing. The minimum wage would vary according to how you were catagorized, and thus how worthy you were considered by the Powerful. Perhaps there would be no need for prison - they could just starve you instead.
Iglesias explained that, for instance, a young man of twenty would not get so much money as a woman responsible for three other people. The idea of this poor burdened woman interested me. There was no man to share her burden, no indication who these three dependents might be. I suspect one might be a sort of sperm donor or entertainer. Here we have, I thought, the new Totalitarian Family under the tutelage of the State.
Stage One - the traditional Christian peasant family - men and women help each other, caring for the young and the old, each with some responsibility, a reliance of mutual support and the free gift of time and money.
Stage Two - the Liberal/Progressive/Jacobin family with a Paterfamilias in direct hierarchical descent from the Nation State. God is replaced by the government, service replaced by domination. The father, who has probably performed military service or been brutalized by school, lords it over his wife and family.
Stage Three -  the Totalitarian Family under direct surveillance of the State. No autonomous action is allowed. All personal and social actions are regulated. The paterfamilias is dispensed with, left to cruise gambling and pornography sites, a semi criminal figure, stewing in the shadows of his bedsit.   All morals, all finances, are under State control. Men and women are isolated. There is no love, no service, no giving - no life as our ancestors would have understood it - only loneliness, depression and self-pity.