@eribosot
[1] Universal programs are more popular than targeted ones. The 90% will complain about the 10% getting money from their taxes. If everyone gets the money, that complaint is diminished. And since taxes don't go away, this extra income for rich folks simply flows back as part of the taxes they already pay.

[2] You can replace some things with #UBI, but not everything. Even if you get $1000 per week, that's not going to cover a major health emergency.

You rob a bank because that's where the money is. You progressively tax rich people and rich companies more for the same reason. Consider the People's Capitalism system #ScienceFiction stories by #MackReynolds. Companies over a certain size were forced to pay their taxes in the form of shares up to a certain limit. Inalienable Basic Shares were given to everyone as a #UniversalBasicIncome. ♦ #SciFi #sff

[3] Third paragraph of Economic Effects, Inflation, at
https://basicincome.stanford.edu/research/ubi-visualization/

"The economic consensus is that general inflation is caused by growth in money supply outpacing economic growth, and that high general inflation is caused by excessive growth in the supply of money (Mankiw, 2002). But most economists do not share the hypothetical concern that a UBI would cause high and general inflation, because there is no reason to assume that a UBI could not be financed by taxes and dividends – which would use money already in circulation, rather than newly printed money. Insofar as inflation does not involve an expansion in money supply, then, a UBI should not lead to high or hyperinflation."
– the Basic Income Lab at Stanford

In the end, all we know is that, when cities or provinces or organizations have handed out money, in dozens of test runs, people were helped, and neither unemployment nor local inflation soared.

@SNerd
The background is different¹, but this is similar to the notion #MackReynolds uses in the Corporate Wars stories involving Joe Mauser, where corporations decided their disputes by battles, with the tech capped around 1880 levels. Mercenary armies clashing in 3D in people's living rooms, with real people being heroes or being killed, worked great as part of the System's #BreadAndCircuses approach to the populace. Free drugs also helped keep them in line.

[1] People's Capitalism was a system where government forced corporations to pay their taxes in the form of shares up to a certain limit. Inalienable Basic Shares were given to everyone as a #UniversalBasicIncome. Over time, Government and Corporations merged, with the latter on top. #UBI #sff #SciFi #ScienceFiction