Thanks for your reply, I agree with almost everything you said. I think perhaps the only place we might disagree is our estimate of number of people who would c

Thanks for your reply, I agree with almost everything you said. I think perhaps the only place we might disagree is our estimate of number of people who would continue to be productive, and those that would not bother. I _did_ say we need both disability and unemployment benefits to support people who can't or choose not participate in the workforce for whatever reason. I agree that we should support somebody who might want to drop out and write the nest great novel. But I don't think its unreasonable for those people to feel like they have to go without some luxuries. I think it's OK to choose to be poor in exchange for total freedom, and we should insure that even the poorest of us have food, shelter, education, and health care. UBI experiments that don't don't guarantee the income for life are obviously not going to induce people to quit a job. UBI says we need to give everybody the same amount of cash to be fair, I just don't agree that we need to give it to everybody, and perhaps that giving out lots of cash will have unintended consequences.