Isn't basic income really pretty dependent on closing borders? So you have a basic income ... here come the stampedes of African and East European low skilled i

Isn't basic income really pretty dependent on closing borders? So you have a basic income ... here come the stampedes of African and East European low skilled immigrants looking to get a basic income without having to do anything. Essentially, also how do you move people from basic income to being ambitious to pursue more than basic income. People become complacent when they become comfortable with their circumstances. I don't think that is appreciated enough in this discussion. People really need to be kept slightly "on their toes". If you look at the USA, that is precisely what happens here, for better or worse and even to an extreme and unhealthy manner. We have extreme poverty relative to other societies we want to consider ourselves to be peers of, but at the same time we have these unachievable dream motivations in the form of grotesquely wealthy people in the form of CEOs, athletes, movie stars, musicians, etc. that 99.99999% of people will never ever get even close to reaching.