[IlyaMoroshkin]

UBI is only sustainable if those who elect to receive it cannot vote or have children. Otherwise they will continually vote for greater payments, and have an excess of children, and the UBI population will eventually subsume the productive population.

Instead of UBI we should guarantee housing (ie. by building it) and also targeting a fixed population maximum, by restricting immigration, which will also reduce housing prices and increase wages.

[dempseye]

This comment is peak HN. I am not sure if some of the assumptions are correct.

Is it true that there are two populations - productive people and welfare dependents - and that people live their lives in one or the other bucket?

Is it true that the population that one belongs to is hereditary?

Is it true that people dependent on UBI would vote to increase it? Do people dependent on welfare vote to increase welfare in general?

[chanbam]

"Fixed population" We gonna kill a grandparent everytime someone has a kid?