It's income without the need to work for it, which is basically the same thing as having an investor or being able to live off savings, in the sense that it all

It's income without the need to work for it, which is basically the same thing as having an investor or being able to live off savings, in the sense that it allowed her the time and opportunity to write. If she didn't have those social security payments, she would have had to get a job, and she probably wouldn't have had the time and energy to create the vast amount of wealth she was able to create. This is a great argument in support of Basic Income. How much wealth is currently not being created because the people who would create it are trapped scraping a living from useless low-pay work?