These numbers are so disingenuous without taking into account a tax rate increase. If you make $100k and pay $20k in taxes now, with a $10k UBI your effective tax bill is cut in half. If you tax rate goes up and you pay $30k in taxes and receive an $10k UBI, then the addition of UBI was net neutral to you.
The reality of a UBI would be the poor and lower middle net more money, the middle middle doesn’t change, the upper middle pay slightly more, and rich pay more.
I think the idea of "net neutral" will be lost on most people. They will look at their previous years taxes and be upset because they have to pay more.
As I see it, "solving poverty" isn't something UBI is supposed to do, at least in the short term. UBI is supposed to reduce the trend of returns of economic gains being distributed disproportionately to the already wealthy; its long-term technology development and resulting productivity gains that cure poverty -- but only if the gains aren't all captured at the top of the pre-gain wealth distribution.
The author repeatedly describes work as something done for social status and personal fulfillment. But his conclusion is that UBI will make people not want to work. Which is it, that people work in order to feel productive? Or just to make money?
That had some good points, but it grasped for FUD too much of the time.