I find it sad, but not surprising, that one of the key disagreements with a BI system is the assumption that poor people are lazy and will spend it on drugs. T

I find it sad, but not surprising, that one of the key disagreements with a BI system is the assumption that poor people are lazy and will spend it on drugs. There are people like that but they make up such a small portion of the population considered, "poor," that it's insulting everyone in a very large demographic. I'd wager that the effects of these people who do use their BI for drugs and recreation will be statistically insignificant. Whereas a BI would provide a lot of mobility and improve the bargaining power of the lower classes if I understand BI. It seems to me that would have far-reaching benefits for the economy at large -- even for high-income earners.