Yes, the title is essentially clickbait, teasing at some sort of interesting point which it completely forgets about. Even if it had bothered to make an argumen

Yes, the title is essentially clickbait, teasing at some sort of interesting point which it completely forgets about. Even if it had bothered to make an argument, places all over the world are trialing "UBI" schemes, including places with robust social safety nets, not just the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots I suggest that there's nothing particularly special about the US's UBI pilots.