The article is older but the government will vote for or against it in autumn 2016.
Also, a bowl of rice a day really is fundamentally different to a guaranteed income that can be spent as the recipient wishes. It is more like food stamps in the US.
Just walk away. Because you won't win any argument with that type. A very convinced yet insecure type.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792192Sadly. I'd really like to see this being implemented somewhere during my lifetime. A society in which survival is no longer a problem might be just what we need in a time when the biggest problem in european agriculture is overproduction and many houses are empty yet we still worry about putting food on the table and a shelter over our heads.
What would people do with this new freedom? An acceleration of technical innovation? An art renaissance? How would relations change in the workplace once you no longer need to work in order to survive? Would volunteering take off as a socially acceptable alternative to paid work? Would it cover areas ignored by the current market?
But people dreaming of free energy are mostly harmless, the only problem being the grant money spent on cold fusion and the like. People dreaming of free money have created worst bloodbaths in history.