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(L to R) Members of "Generation Basic Income" Daniel Haeni, Pola Rapatt, Marilola Wili and Che Wagner pose with eight million coins of Swiss five-cent in a vault on December 3, 2013 in Basel, inside a bank safe that will both go on sale on a luxury website. The 15 tons coins were dumped by a truck last october in front of the Swiss house of Parliament in a symbolic gesture when the activists submitted over 130,000 signatures to organize a nationwide referendum guaranteeing all Swiss nationals a basic income of CHF 2,500 a month (2,700 USD). AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

(L to R) Members of "Generation Basic Income" Daniel Haeni, Pola Rapatt, Marilola Wili and Che Wagner pose with eight million coins of Swiss five-cent in a vault on December 3, 2013 in Basel, inside a bank safe that will both go on sale on a luxury website. The 15 tons coins were dumped by a truck last october in front of the Swiss house of Parliament in a symbolic gesture when the activists submitted over 130,000 signatures to organize a nationwide referendum guaranteeing all Swiss nationals a basic income of CHF 2,500 a month (2,700 USD). AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI        (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)