[thephyber]

You can't talk about a hypothetical world with a UBI without making assumptions about what programs we currently have that are lost to fund the UBI.

In the most "free market" version of a UBI vision, there are no government-subsidized social workers. If you are blind, deaf, learning impaired, addicted, etc you are at the mercy of whatever help you can find by paying for it.

But there are also visions of UBI that combine it with current social services, as opposed to replacing them.

[forgotmysn]

Very good point. The assumptions I was implying were that a UBI would replace the broad, disjointed social welfare programs with a centralized, singular service that's relatively equal but weighted by need.