&gt;Who says you need to be able to live completely off of it?<p>I thought the argument for basic income is that it could support someone without the need for a job. If it can&#x27;t, then that&#x27;s not what I&#x27;ve been discussing.<p>&gt;Requiring someone to work to receive benefits is unbelievably easy to scam anyway because two people can just hire each other to watch television and have the payments cancel.<p>&quot;Illegal thing X cannot be enforced, therefore X should be legal&quot; is an invalid argument.