As a member of the Nordic societies I find it important to point out some important information. In these countries we already have rather sizable unemployment benefits. If you read the (better) article by NYT[0] on the same subject, you will be given an example showing her income under basic income only increased with 50$ out of 635$.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/world/europe/finland-basi...