The reason you have to convince people on the merits of UBI is that Joe Public believes (rightly or wrongly) that it will cost him something. Creating a new cryptocurrency doesn't involuntarily cost anyone anything. There's also the reality that most people have no fucking clue how money or the economy works. If they did they might be far more amenable to the UBI idea. Finally, there's also the silly moral angle that it's somehow wrong to get something for "free". When most of the population are too thick to consider that morals may not be objective and absolute, it's no wonder that you have to convince people of this stuff.
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