Paul Jorion

Isn't there a better way to answer to answer to the concerns of the beneficiaries of Government benefits? Yes of course: by allocating the sums that we could gather for a UBI program to ensure free basic necessities (food, accommodation, transportation, connectivity) - a measure that, unlike UBI, would not be consumerist in its approach and that would therefore respect the environment. Free necessity goods would also answer to the malicious criticism that people use in advance against UBI, that is that its beneficiaries would go and "drink their revenue": neither drugs, nor the recourse to prostitution, nor gambling or lottery tickets are included in our necessities (source)