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There are also plenty of retirees and rich people that get money for not working. I think a good cohort to look at would be trust fund recipients, specifically

There are also plenty of retirees and rich people that get money for not working. I think a good cohort to look at would be trust fund recipients, specifically those who receive between $10-50k/year from their trust. Oftentimes these trusts are first available in young adulthood, so they are a good proxy for UBI. Of course the major confounding variable would be that these recipients are likely to be wealthier, and thus more educated, than the general population

Applejinx 9y ago
This. Go ahead and make whatever arguments you like about how people should not get money for not working, just as long as you're prepared also to apply that to the workings of compound interest in savings accounts :) There should be no income whatsoever merely from already having money. Go get a job :)