&gt; Does anyone have any examples on what the total cost would be per person.<p>There are many different proposals which tend to roughly share <i>long-term</i> goals but differ in short-term approaches.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve mostly seen 12-18k per person but that obviously wouldn&#x27;t fly in San Francisco or Boston.<p>What do you mean, &quot;wouldn&#x27;t fly&quot;? UBI aims to ultimately replace most [0] other social safety net programs with a single cash-payment system which <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> get reduced when people find outside income and isn&#x27;t constrained in what you can spend it on, so that people that have basic support but can supplement with work without being penalized.<p>Most proponents do not see it as guaranteeing the ability to live comfortably on UBI alone in the most expensive places in the country to live.<p>&gt; I recently drove through Kansas and stopped in Quinter, population 955. The per capita income is $15,588 so around $15m for just income not including health insurance&#x2F;etc. How do we go about justifying basic income for a city this size whose primary export is corn.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what you think the cities current per capita income has to do with either the cost or justification of UBI.<p>[0] Or possibly all, details will vary between different versions of the idea.