Opinion of UBI?

[Lourdes]

I'm for it.

The point of UBI is that it can only work after the government has also centralized control over sectors like education and healthcare to the point where they are both free and provided by the state as a right to all.

If you don't do this, you're basically just subsidizing the private healthcare and higher education industries.

This is the problem with healthcare in the US. The country pays way too much to offer the minimum coverage it currently does. Why is that? Because it allows private corporations to basically maximize what they can charge as much as possible and it's essentially subsidized by the government in the form of social welfare programs such as Medicaid. The government has to take over and nationalize these industries and reduce privatization (and in some sectors completely eliminate it) because only the government can run an industry with the goal of public good, not to make a profit.

Many of these contradictions will appear until we recognize that the centralized power of state is a solution.