Live. I can BARELY afford to just do anything right now. Working 40 hours a week to not even make enough to afford my bills is depressing as fuck. The system is broken but no one wants to fix it

The federal US poverty line $1166-1300 per month

People disagree on what a UBI should include. Some view it as covering basic needs entirely, others see it working alongside existing programs, and some believe it could replace certain programs but not all.

Either way, the amount would need to be higher to fully meet today’s cost of living.

Lots of specific replies, but it's important to push out there that, with UBI, the benefits are community-wide. Local economies benefit hugely, which encourages employers to invest locally, with the added incentive to offer good pay and conditions, knowing people can say "No thanks. I have options."

There's been a blog post going round on another network about just how wrong the poverty line calculation in the US is. It might be of interest:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

They gave a lot of artists a basic income in Ireland and they found they generated a €1.39 return for every €1 invested. They're now making it permanent. theconversation.com/irelands-bas...

The threat of "I'm going to be homeless and starve if this doesn't work out" kills so much potential in art and innovation.

It is really sad that if people were not forced to job hop in order to survive, people could stay in jobs they love long enough to get really skilled at it. We would have a better quality of life. every job could have more people who were really good at it and loved it.

Better yet, if we collected proper taxes of billionaires we wouldn’t need to rely on their “philanthropy”

They shouldn’t get social capital for feeding money back into the system that gave it to them in the first place.