UBI serves two purposes. The first is stopgap rhetoric to prevent socialist-inspired rhetoric from making popular gains as traditional employment is eroded awa

UBI serves two purposes. The first is stopgap rhetoric to prevent socialist-inspired rhetoric from making popular gains as traditional employment is eroded away. The second is to point at UBI and go "See, if you give money to people who were made redundant in the labor market, they probably still won't be able to sell their labor" while doing everything to ignore the fact that the market has moved past certain people.