[newyankee]

What is needed in my opinion is a statistical definition and acceptable boundary for Universal Basic Income as a function of the country's wealth and the taxes on billionares to service this.

It should definitely not be median but something like 20 percentile threshold works best. This should be transparently clear and communicated.

However receiving UBI should genuinely lead to a charter of responsibilities as well to incentivise good behaviour.

Every party will keep on pushing the responsibility further (Govts and billionares will say cos will go to different jurisdiction, people earning pittance will defend trust fund billionares based on cultural inculcation etc)

Important to understand that a nation country is still the unit the world operates at and the wealth amongst them is by definition not equally distributed and they fight for it either logically (competing to build the best and cheapest industries) or hoarding resources (Australia, Canada and whatever places were conquered first) or Military superpower.

There is no perfect solution but some consensus on identifying the problem is a first step.

Alternative is simply Civil war in an AI world where the owner class retreats to their islands.

[rrrrrrrrrrrryan]

> It should definitely not be median but something like 20 percentile threshold works best.

We could just start with the goal that everyone has access to basic medical care and a roof their head, like many other wealthy nations. If we want to accomplish that via UBI, we should pick a number that aligns with these goals.