The "not going homeless" already exists in European welfare states, you do not need Basic Income for that. The main difference with basic income is that it woul

The "not going homeless" already exists in European welfare states, you do not need Basic Income for that. The main difference with basic income is that it would be paid to people who could work, but choose not to. This might not make a difference in most cases, but the edge cases could be really expensive: If you are 63 and can retire at 65, wouldn't basic income give you an incentive to travel the world for 2 years? Same for a high school student delaying college for 1 or 2 or 3 years...