I've been on disability for roughly two decades and UBI sure would be nice because the amount of bureaucratic hoops I have to jump through to stay on disability is absolute bullshit [plus the other bullshit like can't get married, have to report financial gifts/donations and hope they don't cut my benefits, can't have a side hustle like Patreon for o-fic]. I've heard anti-UBI arguments like "people need to work to have a sense of purpose" and pro-"workfare" and I'm here to tell you that kind of shit is why I've been bad off for my entire adult life, because if it were so easy as ~just finding a job~ I wouldn't be living on disability this long. Some people legitimately cannot work, and no, writing my shitty fic is not a marketable skillset.

The thing with UBI though is we absolutely need safeguards in place like rent control and continued food/utility/etc assistance because landlords will just jack up rent costs and then poor people are left with the same amount of money after rent/necessities that they would have had before UBI.

But yeah, UBI needs to be a thing. And we could totally afford it if we taxed the rich appropriately, if politicians didn't live like kings, and we weren't spending trillions on bombs and shit to wave our dick at North Korea and Iran. We would also SAVE a lot on prisons and whatnot because fewer people would be doing illegal stuff to survive. I could go on and on and on but it's just... a thing that needs to happen.

I already had brain/energy issues before I got COVID and then, holy shit. I feel like a few dozen points got shaved off my IQ. It's amazing I'm still writing at all; I barely read fic anymore. >:[