I agree with your point about the funding. The problem is that the people who would be in charge of funding UBI are the very ones who are spending trillions of dollars empire building. And the tentacles of the Military Industrial Complex are so intertwined with the way government works nowadays I don't think it's possible to separate the two. They also haven't done a great job as the trustees of social security.
such, this dialogue extends far further than a single blog post, as the model - to really grasp a complete picture of how it could be effective - requires a look at a much broader ecosystem...
i.e. "the people in charge of spending..."
by the point UBI might actually be ready for implementation, alot will have changed. this could also very well include the nature of democracy and taxation, as blockchain applications could upgrade voting and taxation systems in order to put increasing democratic power in the hands of citizens so their votes count in both selecting representatives and allocating tax budgets...
yes. nowadays. yet, times are changing. and many working within the cryptodomains have at their core philosophies the acknowledgement of this systematic corruption and value systems being reflected in the developments underway, to which one of the idealized outcomes may be the dissolution of such centralized systems' power...
it may take some time, but there is an untangling in effect.
it might not be possible to fully separate the two. but, the larger ecosystem dynamics are inevitably shifting, such that governmental power/control may decrease, and decision-making power is more equally distributed such that resource allocation becomes far more effective and there becomes a far greater degree of accountability to taxpayers.
of course, this is all a long-term game.
Thanks for the intelligent discourse. Wow, that's really refreshing.
your welcome. happy to hear. :-)