If you go on ground and talk to people, nobody voluntarily wants to not work. There are a plethora of reasons - lack of jobs, lack of education, mental health, alcoholism, etc.
A UBI is a guarantee that ensures your basic needs are met by the state. What a beneficiary of UBI gets is extremely basic.
Take for instance, 200 units of electricity. If you have a double door fridge, 2-3 fans, heater / AC, 4-6 lights - you’ll surpass 200 units with ease.
Public transport for women looks like an unnecessary thing when bus tickets were already cheap. You could travel the length and breadth of the city with under â‚ą60 in a regular bus. While it might not appear much, for a daily wager earning â‚ą400/day, this is 15% of their income.
While the implementation is complicated to bar folks from gaming the system, it’s a push in the right direction.
Letting large corporates get off with cheap subsidies assuming they will create large scale jobs and not give a fat paycheque to executives and stock holders is extremely indirect way of social welfare which probably won’t directly benefit a large chunk of the masses.
Yes, there will be rich people.
Yes, there will be corruption.
Yes, there will still be folks who game the system.
But this is directly benefiting the deserving, so this is a step in the right direction