I get the premise, and agree that UBI should leave people with an incentive to work. Still, there are pretty divergent needs, and I think money is best. In the

I get the premise, and agree that UBI should leave people with an incentive to work. Still, there are pretty divergent needs, and I think money is best. In the latter two years of grad school, my wife and I ate very cheaply. I was always at home or at the office with a fridge and microwave, had time to make bread and things like that. But there are working poor people work places where that's not easy to do, and so they end up spending a good bit more on food. It's bin-packing. If people have different needs, making each bin big enough for all of them is gonna cost more than giving them money that they can move between their various bins.