Basic income based on other's addictions ? I doubt people around here would welcome drug money being redistributed to a close community distinguishing itself fr

Basic income based on other's addictions ? I doubt people around here would welcome drug money being redistributed to a close community distinguishing itself from outsiders by blood, but somehow, this is acceptable. That being said, there is an easy counter argument to this article: Canada's "first nation". They receives millions in government funding which ends up to be redistributed arbitrarily by "band chief's", often in the pocket of their own direct family. It is not uncommon to have their income in the seven figures while other members of their band fall to real vice, drugs and drinking. (facts confirmed by many first nation members when I living on treaty land). Also, it is not uncommon to see natives who tried to integrate with Canadian society being ostracized by their own community and seen as "traitors" (once again, step family experience).