Comment by Bender

It seems this is an issue that has risen and fallen a few times since 1797 in the United States of America [1] so it seems there may not be a complete answer to the question at hand and there may be some unwritten or underlying challenges not yet addressed if this keeps coming up. I think the better questions would be what have we not done differently in the last 228 years that would move this forward or what have we done to paint ourselves into a corner?

My own personal concern would be what impact UBI would have on existing social security that everyone in the US has spent their entire adult life paying into. Social Security is neither a benefit nor a welfare program. It is a paid for security blanket that all working people in the USA have paid into with no option to opt out. Would social security go away and would I get all my money back?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_by_coun...