I read this book sometime back. This were my notes on this :

“This is an interesting concept I’ve been wanting to read. Often, plutocrats struggle in a capitalistic/autocratic environment. To have a baseline, to not worry abt survival day to day, to look forward to a goal - is something a large part of the world is still unfamiliar with. Is UBI an Ethos and a technocratic policy proposal ? UBI > unemployment? Can you really hack poverty? I have a lot more questions & thoughts after reading this, and would welcome book suggestions. But I think more debates - pros & cons is needed - promotes conversations around it”

I think how much is needed to hack that baseline poverty would differ country by country, state by state. If it's less than an amount to hack poverty, people will not overcome economic challenges and become dependent. At the same time, many people are fucking poor and just want to survive day to day. I think UBI needs to come with a long term goal of creating an independent society. The concept alone may be abused in many ways by useless governments.

Finland decreased homelessness by providing apartments for the homeless. Providing basic necessities may not be a bad thing. But it has to be targeted to specific areas and problems.

I also think, establishing bitcoin as common currency (ie all countries actually using it to buy and sell goods and services) would stabilise economic disparity greatly