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xienzeyesterday at 8:57 PM0 repliesview on HN

> If there will be UBI, it will be the absolute minimum to not starve. Basically the same as welfare now.

Well yeah. Realistically how much money do you think is available to hand out to every single person? Not enough for everyone to live comfortably. And if there was enough, you'd get large swathes of otherwise economically productive groups (aka the tax cattle schemes like this require) just deciding to drop out of the workforce.