UBI isn't really about income equality because wealth between individuals is not going to be equal. It's about having an economic system which allows all humans to survive in it. Some humans are always going to be more wealthy just due to luck but the humans less fortunate have to be able to survive as well. If you don't let the less fortunate survive then if you are a wealthy person you are only creating future problems for yourself when those who have less envy those who have more.
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So let's look at the effect of a minimum wage. This was the last trend similar to UBI. Has it stopped poverty as was promised, where it is practiced? What about welfare? What about old age pension? In fact, the elderly are some of the poorest in our society. The housing projects that promised to provide shelter have become dens of systemic poverty, which are more like cages, leaving people who struggle uselessly to escape. Socialism is a lot of promises backed by few results. In fact, it holds people down rather than pulling them up, and more often than not, becomes control, rather than help! Absolutely the ONLY solution is liberty! This means getting rid things like anti-camping laws, zoning ordinances which do not protect health, licensing laws, and other laws which wealthy socialists use to keep the poor in a place which they view as protecting their property values, and keeping them from having to visually deal with them, as well as preventing the wealthy from having to personally associate with the poor charitably. It is the same heart as the rich man had toward Lazurus, though they feel better about it, as they gave government the responsibility, which reduces their perceived guilt.