A great alternative is to tax corporates on the increased productivity that they achieved through layoffs and then distribute the proceeds as UBI to the affected.
It bothers me that UBI is conflated with social support and welfare.
The term carries a bunch of connotation and implications which are material to the sprit of the statement.
Well call what you may but UBI will be as necessary as oxygen is to life . Specially when most of white and even blue collared jobs will be automated. Without UBI most people will not be able to survive , forget about thriving.