Universal basic income doesn’t work. Let’s boost the public realm instead

But that article is shit. The author (from my opinion) has an agenda against ubi and is mixing their history to give some rather strange responses about why ubi wont work.

I use to assume anything published in the guardian was, well not shit, but now? Well that seems to be me, to be a bit piece, no a neutral and unbiased look at things.

It has very few sources or figures, and mostly consists of a bunch of statements without support. They're also using a broken tinyurl to link to the full paper, which doesn't seem available.

'universal basic income (UBI), the scheme that would give everyone regular, unconditional cash payments that are enough to live on.'

and then follows with

'what’s been tested in practice is almost infinitely varied, with cash paid at different levels and intervals, usually well below the poverty line and mainly to individuals selected...'

so, no studies were conducted where UBI was given to all at above poverty line? accounting for reduction of government bureaucracy that's currently decides who gets and who does not?

After working with minimum wage workers for 2 years and with technology advancement, I don't think the 10-15% of the population will be able to live a good life without Ubi.

As tech gets better more bottom employees will be displaced from work. We need to start increasing minimum wages and figure out how to provide better life to bottom 10% of the population

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But even if the evidence is absent that can simply be explained by the lack of large scale well designed trials.