>As far as I know, open questions that remain are: >- Will we be able to afford it? Sort of back-of-the-napkin calculations can show, that if we introduced i.

>As far as I know, open questions that remain are: >- Will we be able to afford it? Sort of back-of-the-napkin calculations can show, that if we introduced i.e UBI in Germany for everybody (80 mil) on a level of minimum wage (1473 E ?), it would eat their federal budget for Ministry of Health and Social Security and Ministry of Economics and Labour In what way is that an unanswered question? Every single debate about this has any number of people pointing out that you would adjust taxes so that for most people the UBI + tax increases would be net neutral with perhaps slightly higher marginal taxes at the top. Every single discussion about UBI also somehow has any number of people pretending this point has never been raised and insisting that the cost of UBI will be UBI_Amount * Population. This isn't even taking into account the reduction in existing social programs which would presumably be replaced by UBI.