In France, there is basically UBI, you just need to ask for it. Just having the French passport and no job qualifies you to RSA [1] which gives you about 550 eu

In France, there is basically UBI, you just need to ask for it. Just having the French passport and no job qualifies you to RSA [1] which gives you about 550 euros a month (according to [1], but nets to ~490 according to a friend finishing law school that had to sign up for it since cov19 is making it very hard for him to find a job right now). I believe you've don't have to have ever worked to get RSA, just being over some age (~26?) and being a French citizen. So you don't have to give UBI to everyone, just the people that need it while they figure it out. Now whether you, as a society, want it is an entirely different story; I've met some peeps that absolutely despise RSA in France. I think there's also a bunch of programs financing unemployed people so they can go back to school and pick up a more current job once their unemployment benefits end. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_de_solidarit%C3%A9_active https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_de_solidarit%C3%A9_acti...