My only qualm with UBI is that it needs to be Universal in the non-discriminating sense. I don't see how that could perform better than a system that at least a

My only qualm with UBI is that it needs to be Universal in the non-discriminating sense. I don't see how that could perform better than a system that at least attempts to discriminate between good and bad actors. Not to underestimate the difficulty of that task, but I feel as long as we are testing out Unconditional BI in the real world, which is great - we shouldn't miss out on experimenting with Conditional Basic Income as well. Even if you do not manage to catch all the bad actors, it could still be worthwhile improvement over otherwise. The good folks at Ethereum and other crypto based decentralized platforms have been working on useful tools like decentralized identity, smart contracts, tokens that can hopefully make this practical.