UBI is the answer when you believe that all economic productivity must come from the US coasts. This is a failure of a common way presenting the UBI as "you sh

UBI is the answer when you believe that all economic productivity must come from the US coasts. This is a failure of a common way presenting the UBI as "you should be able to have a comfortable life without working", which is both economically infeasible and not actually desirable. A UBI, at least in the form that I support, isn't something that you should be happy to live off of indefinitely, it's just better protection against homelessness and hunger than our current convoluted welfare systems. The expectation should still be that you'll find something productive to do, and a UBI incentivizes that because it avoids the welfare trap of losing a dollar in benefits for every dollar you earn.