Well I did not say anything about the cost of UBI, I was not even necessarily advocating for UBI, I simply was giving an example were I had heard a similar "tru

Well I did not say anything about the cost of UBI, I was not even necessarily advocating for UBI, I simply was giving an example were I had heard a similar "trust the evidence" argument. That said, answering with "napkin math" to a complex costing problem like UBI is exactly the problem and why we should listen more to scientists. Unfortunately, many of us engineering types are way too quick to make very strong statements based on essentially no expertise except for some math and engineering education. Interestingly in my observation this behaviour is less prevalent in scientists (i.e. people coming from a science opposed to an engineering background). Obviously, this is only anecdotal, but I would be interested if others have observed this.