Or try your hand at entrepreneurship, since you've got a net. Or write a book, which you turn into passive income. Or, or, or...
A UBI should take us to a place where jobs are optional. This is an unambiguous net good, IMO.
Plus UBI probably creates a disincentive for work. This is not just some hypothesis. In trials of UBI people receiving UBI worked less. Fewer people working -> less tax revenue -> less money available to finance UBI.
UBI isn't a panacea or a route to utopia. Jobs can't be optional until we have some sort of robotic labor force, which is a long way off.
Isn't that around the amount YC typically puts into a project?
Hasn't the internet proven how cheap entrepreneurship can be?
Not having to burn yourself out just to feed and shelter yourself would afford you vastly more opportunity to find a niche that you can make an extra buck in, if you're inclined and motivated that way.
I don't see why this is such an un-obvious notion, or why people seem not to think that could net us a far richer economy — of goods, services, and ideas — than the one we've got, where you on the whole only get what someone who already has money (either the founder or their backers) decides to make.
It is a mental state and a type of personality. You can be one and be successful starting with 0 dollars.
Entrepreneurs don't even need office space, and can get going with extremely limited equipment.
Honestly you have a profound misunderstanding of what an entrepreneur actually is.
Not if you spend it on office equipment. The $20k buys you $20k worth of free time in your life to work on your personal projects, ideas, hobbies without your life falling apart as a consequence.
That's enough time to set up a small leather-working shop in your garage, or build an app, or start a podcast, or write a few chapters of a book.