Absolutely. I'd be in favor of some sort of graduated UBI for students/postgrads working on fields with broad benefits for humanity. $70k/yr or whatever for phy

Absolutely. I'd be in favor of some sort of graduated UBI for students/postgrads working on fields with broad benefits for humanity. $70k/yr or whatever for physics PHDs to be able to research whatever they fancy in the field would probably be an enormous boon to the economy in the long run. You'd have to build in some safeguards from abuse so that it doesn't turn into essentially a pension, but I think you could figure that bit out.