[dragonwriter]

> You are shooting yourselves and the economy in the leg if you give everybody a UBI.

Maybe, but you haven't given us any reason to believe that, especially not:

> People need to be given incentives to become more productive

...since that is one of the primary reasons for people advocating displacing means-tested social benefit programs (which negate returns for additional outside income within some range) with UBI (which does not.)