If workers spend a few days per year to pay for your ubi that takes away that time of their life. If they spend 1% of their life working for ubi it’s 1% of workers life lost. That’s asking quite a lot.
To the downvoters of my initial comment: I don’t want people to die on the street. But I doubt ubi is an adequate cure either.
If I considered saving no longer worthwhile, I wouldn’t consume more. I would work less and enjoy more free time. Of course this leads to over proportional less taxes for the state or ubi.
I don’t see why you couldn’t try ubi in small scale by the fans. The most obvious reason why it wouldn’t work on small scale and only on state or global level is because supporters want someone else to pay for it.
Yes, obviously? Preferably the people with more than one megayacht?
According to [1] the top 3% (>250k USD household income per year) earn in total per month
127,300,000,000 = 3,800,000 * 402,000 / 12 USD
vs
300,000,000,000 = 300,000,000 * 1,000 USD
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
"Do you want $1000 each for twenty years or a war for twenty years" was of course a question that was never on the table in 2002.
Check your numbers: US military budget 2019 [1] is $686Bn or $60 Bn per month vs $300 Bn per month for ubi.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...