What you're suggesting sounds like bread lines. That's not really a step up from the current system that lifted millions out of poverty and hunger. The US has

What you're suggesting sounds like bread lines. That's not really a step up from the current system that lifted millions out of poverty and hunger. The US has enough grain to pass it out to everyone, no magic technological leap needed, we already ship our massive amounts of excess grain across the world to developing countries. Noone in a developed country wants to eat just grain though! Also who gets to hand out the grain? That never really goes well when authoritarians control who gets to eat and how much and what. (some animals are more equal than others) And who gets / has to do the automating / maintaining? Are they compensated extra or is it forced? > It would be reasonable to assume for ubi to work, we would need a reasonable amount of land to be farmed. We have plenty of farmland. The thing you need most for "free food" is more ranchland in the US. Otherwise you will have to develop the natural grassland as farmland, killing every creature under the topsoil and using A LOT of water. As you can tell I have a few issues with this communistic approach, but I would like honest answers to these proses as they come up in history as "problems of implementation" to be generous. (killing millions via famine and force) Edit: downvote all you want, but questioning a proposed new system to govern humans should be scrutinized given the past failed experiments with millions of people's lives.