UBI is such a fundamental shift to the model that the back-of-the-napkin calculations would look even more basic and stripped away than that. The questions beco

UBI is such a fundamental shift to the model that the back-of-the-napkin calculations would look even more basic and stripped away than that. The questions become much more 'fundamental' in nature. "What is our net import and export? Do the resources we have and import support the mouths we currently have?" "Is there enough developed land to house the homeless who'd otherwise not benefit from that $1000 or whatever you allocate them?" One of the beautiful things about UBI is that it has the potential to strip away the artificial excesses created in the pockets of the world today that have more money than literally they know what to do with. The sectors in which money simply indicates abstractions like "the degree to which person X has control over companies A/B/C" or "what their risk is if Y thing does or does not happen". The derivatives market, wall street - highly-dressed-up casinos and skill games, essentially, as far as their value to society goes. > Could someone please point me to what kind of tax structure a country would need to have to realistically be able to afford UBI? I'm right there with you hoping for this kind of analysis to become more common discourse, but to me the answers that even begin to get at the heart of the problem have much less to do with the money than the fundamentals you're trying to have that money "create".