> When reading such things, I don't understand why people hate on UBI. There is a litany of reasons why. Mostly on the "I agree in principal but..." basis. Her

> When reading such things, I don't understand why people hate on UBI. There is a litany of reasons why. Mostly on the "I agree in principal but..." basis. Here are three. 1. The Big Bang. A change as drastic as UBI should be introduced gradually. Fucking up on this scale would have enormous repercussions. For instance: one could gradually lower the age of retirement until everyone is retired (or you could lower taxes, or discount healthcare... you get the idea). If these are untenable propositions, then UBI definitely is. 2. Poison In The Well. If the government is the arbiter of UBI funds, then it gains a type of power it currently does not possess. If there exists criteria for taking UBI away from an individual or group, then the government has the ability to 'tone police' (like China's social credit system) in a way which has more in common with authoritarian dictatorships than a Western style state. Having the autonomy of providing your own food, shelter and other resources enables you to have political independence even if everybody doesn't like you. Not so under UBI. Your economic state is hitched such that only the wealthy now have the right to political opinions. Moral panics should not be able to affect funding. The left and right shall tear UBI apart like a rag doll and it could even become the fulcrum through which a civil war begins. If people feel a threat to their source of food exists you'd have an Arab Spring situation. 3. The Parasite Traveller. There is a contradiction between UBI and having open borders. You must have very close to closed borders to citizens of poorer countries or UBI states which are less wealthy. You have to choose between values. There is no state on this planet capable of UBI for all.