Re: 2 - It'd be kind of interesting if the UBI was tied to a 30 hour work week or 4 day work week. A bit like ok we want to give you money to pursue your dreams but we also want to make sure you have your act together with some cadence so you don't drift off into nowhere-ville.
And before you downvote - I'm coming off reading this story which is on the HN front-page where the guy basically created his own UBI and then fell off the map:
Let’s assume forcing people to work for UBI is a good thing (something I completely disagree with) and focus on the practicality of it instead.
As soon as you put in qualifiers it is no longer universal. Inevitably with gatekeepers you will have corruption (controlling who qualifies gives you power) as there is always an incentive. On the flip side you incentivize cheating (loopholes in the qualifiers, lying, etc.) and then all the $ spent staffing and building tools to enforce those qualifiers, then the staff who regulate them, etc.
So with good intentions you’ve completely ruined what could have been a very simple, fair, and efficient system. Basically what government does every day (usually with good intentions).
And before you downvote - I'm coming off reading this story which is on the HN front-page where the guy basically created his own UBI and then fell off the map:
https://www.wired.com/story/unsettling-truth-mostly-harmless...