You made a couple good points. Now we're having a conversation! 1. You don't have a choice about investing in the future of your own country. You do that when

You made a couple good points. Now we're having a conversation! 1. You don't have a choice about investing in the future of your own country. You do that when you pay taxes. Like it or not. It does not matter. 2. Venture capitalists do not fund far fetched ideas, they FOMO lemming-like fund whatever every other idiot is already funding. Lots of people in favor of UBI simultaneously hate the idea of merit-based "big money" grants for ideas. Maybe because they don't want public opportunity programs to dry up the pool of broke-ass idealistic post-docs with big ideas and no chance to ever see any of them get funded.