> Not everyone gets UBI. UBI pays you up to an amount, based on your other income. This is not how UBI is typically discussed, and it wasn’t how the regional p

> Not everyone gets UBI. UBI pays you up to an amount, based on your other income. This is not how UBI is typically discussed, and it wasn’t how the regional pilot projects I am familiar with worked. Rather, every single citizen of a community gets the same amount regardless of how much money they earn from other sources. That is part of the “universal” and it is precisely how UBI improves employees’ position against employers: an employee can safely quit at any moment because he already has the UBI as backup with no further actions required. What you are describing is more the “negative income tax” form of universal income that has been criticized for not empowering the working class this way.