&gt; No, you give them money to pay rent and eat<p>If every person gets X dollars per month, then over time, everything will cost at least X dollars. We have 78 years of a &quot;grand experiment&quot; to prove this (minimum wage).<p>Proponents of BI often forget that our economy will not remain how it is today.<p>Sure, if everyone today had an extra guaranteed $1,000 every month, it would short-term be fantastic. But the economy would eventually adjust, as it always does. Rent would slide upwards, so would goods prices, etc, to the point where we wind up where we are today with minimum wage (perpetually raising it every few years in a never-ending game of cat and mouse, the essential cost of living).<p>&gt; Plenty of people would love to go to school but can&#x27;t afford to on a minimum wage job.<p>We do have programs in place that solve this. Yes, you have to pay it back, and it can certainly add up to a large sum if you decide to not work at all and use your loan to pay for food and rent. Perhaps our universities should change the paradigm, and require students to work at minimum part time, as this yields a tremendous amount more than just money... but I digress.