did come across one interesting idea for a "universal income" that's based in actual work that anyone can do. it involved a crypto "governance" model, where the new currency is mined by randomly selecting biometrically-confirmed users instead of having mining conglomerates wasting energy repeating fruitless tasks. Mining could even be performed on something as simple as a cell phone. The key being that technology will be the great unifier, and as anyone and everyone will soon be able to "afford" at least a low-end smart phone, those resources can be used to perform, well, certainly more efficient work than is currently being performed with bitcoin and other POW crypto-currencies. This is the whitepaper on it:
https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform
Interestingly, Cicada may make for a perfect fit with @Dan's upcoming EOS platform:
EOS Highlights and Favorites from Ethereal and Consensus 2017
golem ["will?"] do this as well. the scenario about the mining is still sci-fi. heck it is like asking today someone to mind btc on their cellphone. the tasks won't be so easy to accomplish — and if they are — the rewards will be minimal.
something like "watch an ad and earn 0.01 cents" that we have today. again. it is not wise to speculate with "what ifs" when we already have technology and innovation and still weren't be able to implement BUI.
The problem is not technological. it is economic. it has to do with how humans perceive and create value. As long as people want to remain individuals with unique characteristics BUI cannot happen. it is against evolution itself. this is the same reason why communism failed and why we revert back to awesome capitalism. we like the pyramid. we like the A sexy instead of B. we are selfish and want to propagate OUR genes. This is what all comes down to. human nature.