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Originally Posted by GGG
You can have the life of crime AND the better alternative. In fact it being a tax less cash job that provides a small side income but not a real 9-5 job probably has a certain attractiveness in a UBI world. You need such a small amount of more money to provide a large increase in standard of living when all of your needs are paid for. 100% of income goes to wants.
So making small amounts of money selling drugs seems like a reasonable hobby. I think the answer is legalize, tax, treat and enforce. This becomes even more important when you have a UBI.
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Unless drug dealing without a license is still a crime, in which case a person is taking an a huge risk by choosing to break the law.
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In general I agree with the principle of UBI that access to meeting the basic needs to live should be provided by the state. However the Universal nature of UBI and human nature will lead to perverse incentives causing the system to collapse.
Like every 50 year engineer retiring and spending their lives tinkering instead of developing modern power grids and extracting energy from the earth.
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If they were making an engineer's salary for 50 years (or even 25 years for that matter), they likely can retire regardless of whether or not UBI is provided to them.
I hope we aren't looking at another 10 pages of this thread talking about human nature. Let's just say I strongly disagree with your assessment.