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I support UBI because I am a fiscal conservative.
There is, no joke, a surprising amount of libertarian support.
The two most prominent libertarian supporters of a UBI are Matt Zwolinski, a libertarian philosophy professor at the University of San Diego, and the economist Michael Munger.
(I think it's important to clarify that I'm left-libertarian, not an 'edgy fascist' an-cap like those who've co-opted the label in the US.)
Just to let you know a left-libertarian is called an Anarchist.
There are a whole bunch of different ideologies in that quadrant of the political compass (for lack of a better visual aid), and anarchism is only one of them.
Yeah, it does make me nervous because it feels like a lot of libertarian ideology around UBI involves getting rid of social security, food stamps, etc. etc. without guaranteeing UBI will cover basic survival.
If it fails at that, it's just "UI" and thus doesn't count, by definition.
Yeah, big true.