>I have a positive, but finite, amount that I care about people in poverty. UBI is another attempt to save an economic system which works for you but incentivi

>I have a positive, but finite, amount that I care about people in poverty. UBI is another attempt to save an economic system which works for you but incentivizes maintaining a class of desperate and powerless citizens. Each of these ill-fated attempts punishes another slew of innocent generations of poverty-ridden lives, in the name of ignoring the root issue of misaligned incentives. How many chances do you believe the ruling class to deserve? The issue may not be the amount that you care but that your caring evidently depends on what you get out of it. That’s not caring. Try again. >Giving people in poverty a sustenance level of amount money per month seems it prioritizes neighbors in poverty more than today. The contradictions and other problems really are too long to list here but it shouldn’t be necessary. For someone so concerned with wasting money, advocating UBI over direct commodity distribution is about as hypocritical as it gets. The only difference is an additional and purely self-serving dependency on market values, which are drastically unstable across time, geography and, social structures. So, while your claim is of course untested, your proposal only further establishes that, once implemented, the results will be ever-changing and therefor unknowable. You might do best to just state why you would prefer UBI over direct commodity distribution.