In my opinion, basic-income, though a general concept, can't really be generalized. Any actual implementation will be an alternative to any other actual impleme

In my opinion, basic-income, though a general concept, can't really be generalized. Any actual implementation will be an alternative to any other actual implementation. Social policy seems to be hard to get right. I.e. one thing I heard, that a certain level of universal-basic-income is being implemented in the US, by generous disability benefits. If you then feel that you no longer have ability to do meaningful work (especially in the rural areas), you can collude with your doctor to make yourself a diagnosis that you would qualify for and would qualify you for disability benefits. As they say, these days there are no healthy people, just insufficiently diagnosed ;) Then you can survive doing odd-jobs to supplement your now-almost-basic income. But I get that making something like this general might just cost too much. And there might be unwanted sideffects. I.e. in my country, you can apply for housing subsidy. This was supposed to help low-income households. In reality, it mostly helped people providing housing for of certain segment of almost-homeless people, where they no longer have stable address, and they barely scrape by to pay ther rent, mostly one-bed in a how income hostel. So, when the subsidies came, owners just raised the price of a bed by the ammount of subsidy. This created an interesting poverty-trap, and several cities are trying to fight back to untangle this. What doesn't help is that many of the trapped people are ethnic minorities, which then can be used by less savoury politicians in their municipal politc campaigns.