The thing is, the subsidised poor already have a huge system of entitlements in most developed countries. Governments combat homelessness with social housing (net value <i>far</i> more than $10k per annum where I live) and direct despondent former Fortran programmers into jobs or onto retraining schemes whilst paying them enough to live on.<p>Arguments for universal BI (as opposed to tweaks to benefit entitlement rules) are in effect a suggestion that people on those programmes should have <i>less</i> so that we can afford to extend subsidies to middle class stay-at-home wives and twenty-somethings on gap years, because rich people that don&#x27;t want to work obviously deserve the same as people with nothing going through a crisis. And you have the temerity to intemperately accuse anyone that questions it of being elitists.<p>And yes, BI is something which has been chiefly advocated by privileged white men.