Perhaps with the increasing unwillingness to take responsibility, behavior becomes more controllable by those who can predict it.
Although I have a feeling it's pure cognitive dissonance with conservative beliefs caused by the very extreme views the liberal populations are involving in politics about UBI.
There seems to be a common belief that people who need income support are victims, when in reality they are just poor and stupid, or poor and unable to access a market.
plenty of poor and stupid - it is the poor and unable to access a market that is an issue.
The polarization is a problem because people are forced into extreme habits in all areas - otherwise - they are "out of the group". There is safety in groups - everyone fails together.
In regards to groups. There is one that inherently demands the virtues of the individual be the most important in all life's engagements. Sadly the public eye, and fear of the unknown, have polluted the likes of Dharmatic Satanism, which originated in ancient India as a powerful source of individualism and self enlightenment.
