If they are lucky, they’ll find a job that includes pension benefits.
Within this sentence lies bare the truth of why a basic income is evolution from our current way of existing.
Luck; Genetic luck, location luck, education luck, inheritance luck, health luck, disaster avoidance luck etc.
The universal income would lead to a reduction of lucks importance in relation to being able to cover costs of the most basic human needs of shelter and sustenance.
If we cant do that as a bare minimum how hypocritical is it to call ourselves developed? Unfortunately the current system breeds the attitude of; as long as its not happening to me, my family or friends, I really don’t care about those ‘others’ not of my tribe.
I find the most frustrating part of that mentality is that historically, humans coming together as a society and sharing the load through combining the best of individuals strengths, is the only reason we are standing here today with our current quality of life.
That aside, I understand your points on how this particular article is written, although I preferred to treat it as an analogy for how a regular base amount can reduce the fear of imagined outcomes that our species is so prone to living in.