How about instead of using a &quot;basic income&quot; to enable people to pay for living expenses (food, housing), how about cut out the middleman and just pay for food &amp; housing? This could be a system of college dormitories that people can live in free of rent, and includes cafeterias that serve meals free of cost.<p>Anyone can live there, with some sort of local government oversight. You want to live somewhere nicer? Make money and pay more. You fall on hard times or want to cut costs while working on the next big idea? You don&#x27;t have to worry about not having food on the table or roof over your head.