Which will be greatly countered by the fact that if you make $10K more than anyone else you are going to be one of the richest people you know. That $10K extra

Which will be greatly countered by the fact that if you make $10K more than anyone else you are going to be one of the richest people you know. That $10K extra can buy you a lot of things. Again, judging UBI based on how things look like today is exactly where the discussion goes wrong. UBI makes sense if you accept the idea that there are almost no jobs left for humans. It doesn't make sense in a world where there is plenty of jobs. In other words, it's NOT a mechanism for getting people to work it's a way to ensure that all those people who have no work still have some way to buy things and keep some economy going.