1) Predictive: UBI is a prediction. i.e., the public will demand it because they need it. Government will feel compelled to bring it in. Also the excuses not to bring it in will fall flat. E.g., Inflation: Its because money is exiting the economy that there will not be a significant inflation problem. I am NOT saying there will be no issues whatsoever… only that the inflation issue links to the prediction. If the prediction was booming economy then I wouldn’t be predicting UBI. I’m predicting a dying economy that will need demand. Also, the argument that UBI is expensive will be responded with… its too expensive not to have UBI. UBI comes in because theres a fire. UBI is the fire service. UBI is not the fire.
2) One Collective People: We don’t decide policy in a divided way. We stand or fall together. This is NOT prediction. This is what I personally want and need society to be like. I prefer it to the idea that a clique that does not represent us possessing disproportionate power and control. That clique exercises that power even when they do not fit with what the collective people think. So this is a call for representatives of the people to decide policy. My favourite example is the NHS whereby representatives of doctors, nurses and ambulance men and women decide both the level of the NHS budget and what it is spent on. (However, I would maintain the independent pay commission to decide their wages). This is preferable to Matt Hancock, Sajid Javid or Rishi Sunak deciding.
3) Generally Practical as opposed to ideological: Because the UBI policy is practical and common sense for our time. To do nothing in the face of the tech revolution would be nuts. And because the stand or fall together idea (that is the opposite of a power and control clique wielding disproportionate power) is not emotionally attached to this or that doctrine. It’s democratic in spirit, no ego dictatorship. Its practical. Again it’s not ideological.