I was dubious about the idea of Basic Income in the past, but now having more experience of the problems of the economy I'm in favour of it and see it as becoming inevitable at some point. Eventually it will simply be impossible in the majority of cases to exchange human labour (intellectual or physical) for resources, and we're on a sliding scale where it is becoming increasingly difficult to do that.

The existing welfare state here in the UK is wasteful and highly corrupt. In the last few years I've seen all of the various government scams with my own eyes. It would be far more efficient simply to have a minimum basic income for everyone without preconditions or poisonous moralising. A lot of wasted effort and unnecessary hardship would be prevented by doing that.