It&#x27;s not really quite that simple though. You have to look at a UBI in comparison to our current system.<p>How many more people will quit their jobs instead of working if we replace our current system with a UBI? Small scale preliminary studies seem to indicate not that many.<p>&gt;But remember, living off the dole also means not contributing anything back to society. These people could be doing something of value, but are incentivized not to.<p>That&#x27;s not true at all unless you think people on welfare and disability are incapable of contributing <i>anything</i> back to society.<p>Lets say we have a single parent who can&#x27;t afford day care. He parks his kids in front of the TV, or pawns them off on inattentive relatives, so he can go to McDonald&#x27;s 30 hours a week and make $8 an hour. I think that he would contribute more to society in the long term by staying home and raising his kids than he does making minimum wage at McDonald&#x27;s.<p>Then we look at the economic upsides to a UBI. It is likely that a UBI will reduce crime. It will also likely encourage more entrepreneurial risk taking. And like in my previous example, a UBI will allow more parents to stay home and spend time with their children, potentially allowing the children to earn more money in the future.