> Do you tell them "tough shit, you've exhausted all your social safety nets" Yes it's the same thing on the current welfare. You can blow your bridge card (fo

> Do you tell them "tough shit, you've exhausted all your social safety nets" Yes it's the same thing on the current welfare. You can blow your bridge card (food stamps) on bad food and be out of it and you don't get more. It would be the same thing, you can blow your money and then you're gonna have to find something else. I would think any basic income program would come along with available education on budgeting and counseling for how to get out of debt, etc. I think besides lack of opportunity, another big problem with social mobility in our country is lack of financial education. People just don't realize how many sharks there are out there trying to take advantage of them, and just how deep of trouble they can easily get into. You can present all kinds of edge cases how basic income can fail in individual, specific cases, but those are the exceptions. And you shouldn't kill a great idea because of the exceptions.