Look at how well competition works in our broken healthcare system. Our costs are the highest in the world yet our life expectancy and infant mortality isn’t all that great.

Or look at education at all levels, where costs have also skyrocketed and public options keep getting cut because bureaucrats from “competing” private industries try to push their agenda (you could argue this is even worse in healthcare and pharma).

Competition and profit motive hasn’t been proven to work so well for public goods, in my opinion, but would love to hear of examples where it worked. This is why for some things we still agree we should pay for at a government level (local or national), such as firefighters, defense, mail, etc, etc.

Not even going to get into how inflationary ubi would be, instantly driving up costs due to “rational” economic behavior.