“A world with #UniversalBasicIncome is more meritocratic than a world without one, because luck-based distribution — which is what we have now — throws away most of the talent in the room.

“A #UBI world isn’t a world that rewards laziness. It’s a world where the Einsteins and the Khns and the Kleks and the creatives you’ve never heard of yet actually get a shot at mastery that their talent deserves, instead of getting filtered out at age 19 because they couldn’t afford rent.”

https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/