&gt; Answers like this would make sense if we didn&#x27;t already spend billions and billions a year to address those exact topics, or if I was saying we shouldn&#x27;t have any welfare programs at all.<p>But then your argument doesn&#x27;t make any sense because it applies <i>more</i> to means-tested programs than UBI, because working can&#x27;t cause you to lose the UBI.