[squeegee_scream]

I don’t think _everyone_ gets an extra $1,000, just those at the bottom. I’m pretty sure there are different ways of implementing UBI, and some of them only provide a certain amount to the lower income folks. So if you are making plenty of money, whatever plenty means in your location and context, you would not receive any additional income.

[hn8726]

UBI by definition is paid to everyone, regardless of their income. That's contrasted with GMI, guaranteed minimal income, which supplements your current income to some minimal level, which would work as you described

[RedNifre]

The point of it being universal is that you still have a good incentive to work, since every dollar earned is a dollar more in your pocket (initially, before you reach the income level where you need to pay taxes).

Compare that to non-universal social help, where every dollar earned gets subtracted from your social pay, so the first $1000 you earn are effectively taxed 100%, creating an incentive to not start working.

[kajumix]

If it's not for _everyone_ it's not _universal_ basic income. It's just welfare for poor in that case, and that's already very common

[purerandomness]

That's not UBI (the universal part), that's state subsidies, which already exist today all over the world.

[jghn]

The "U" in "UBI" is "Universal"