It's more importantly an alternative to the minimum wage to reduce unemployment. The classic example is if you can only add $10 value/hour in an area where the

It's more importantly an alternative to the minimum wage to reduce unemployment. The classic example is if you can only add $10 value/hour in an area where the minimum wage is $20/hour you will go unemployed. If there is a UBI instead then you receive the UBI plus whatever you are paid in accordance with the value added. This also means you wouldn't need endless arguments over adjustments to a minimum wage. You are dead right about poverty-pimps - they are the true parasites in all this.