It is also worth comparing this to the current status quo. About ~17% of working age adults in West Virginia are receiving disability benefits[1] vs about 8% fo

It is also worth comparing this to the current status quo. About ~17% of working age adults in West Virginia are receiving disability benefits[1] vs about 8% for California and New York. The reasons for this are complex, but in short it is likely due to a mixture of cost of living (disability benefits go farther in LOC areas), economic opportunity (disability is "more attractive" when job opportunities are scare), and demographics (older, more blue collar, etc...). But regardless of how or why these discrepancies exist, we have essentially created a system which incentives our population to self-sort geographically based on their ability to contribute economically. That is of course problematic in and of itself, but this also means we have a real life pseudo "UBI experiment" that we can evaluate. And if you look at the data, nearly all of the states with high disability percentages are low cost of living states, particularly when it comes to housing prices. So anyone who complains about how UBI would increase housing costs needs to first account for the fact that large swaths of the working age population are already receiving benefits similar in level to a UBI (disability is about $1600/mo). And despite the higher concentration of beneficiaries in areas like WV, we haven't seen much of any impact in real estate or local inflation. If anything we have seen the opposite. [1] https://www.mathematica.org/dataviz/state-disability-maps https://www.mathematica.org/dataviz/state-disability-maps