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>not to empower people which a UBI would do.

I fail to see how UBI empowers anyone. The lazy will not work anyway, the undisciplined will still waste their money, the stupid will still fall to scams. If anything, UBI exacerbates all these problems as it also removes a lot of shame that goes along with those who live off 'benefits' (here in the UK at least) and would probably breed even more 'claimants' than we currently see. How on earth can a society subsidise such a practice whilst still maintaining and even driving forward productivity and/or progress? UBI is the lefts way of throwing money at a social problem with no thought of consequences or even considering that human behaviours needs to fundamentally changes as well as financial activities (off-shore banking, shell companies, various citizenship loopholes) which make the economic system so shitty in the first place and prevents wealth from really being invested back into society or distributed more fairly.