[jmye]

> Is my friend who plays the didgeridoo in his free time now an artist if he declares it's suddenly his full-time occupation?

Is this really a risk, given UBI is generally minimal? Anyone who wants to live on it full-time to support their art, whatever it may be, is welcome to it. It's not like they're sitting back and getting rich, here.

> One example, why exclude people like Geo-scientists who sometimes dont even get any money (except they work for big-oil or the state).

Because "UBI for everyone who deserves it" is a much harder, bigger step, and fighting against small wins because they don't include literally every single outlier case you can think of is absurdly non-productive, not to mention that it's a vacuous counter-argument.