I&#x27;m partial to it as an idea and a sentiment, but what it would take to institute it is the impossible: deciding on the level of it.<p>Should it be $5,000 per month so that the full costs of an apartment in NYC&#x2F;SF so that a family could on with their lives undisturbed by unemployment? Or, should it be $500 to cover just the most fundamental needs of shelter and nourishment in the Midwest?<p>There are many levels in-between -- it&#x27;s just as impossible to decide between $1,000 and $1,500 -- and if you went ahead to implement UBI, the conflict this would cause would halt implementation.