@hunkyscotsman What reality? Every rich country except the U.S. already has universal healthcare — no one's proposing cancelling that.

Every rich country including the U.S. already has a web of expensive, targeted income-support programmes and and other benefits.

The goal of UBI is to replace many of the social programmes so that more money ends up in beneficiaries' hands rather than bureaucratic overhead.

Creating a false dilemma is a beginner's trick to try to derail a discussion.