If you give people everything Easy solution: don't give them everything. There's a lot of difference between "give people everything" and "make sure everyone

If you give people everything Easy solution: don't give them everything. There's a lot of difference between "give people everything" and "make sure everyone has enough money for food and shelter". We're already doing the latter part, at least in the more civilized parts of the world. The argument for the U in UBI is that there's currently a whole lot of administration fees spent on determining who should get which handouts. If it's universal, all that management overhead disappears. It's like retirement Your view of retirement doesn't match the retired people around me.