Let's find a way to get poor people's needs and wants taken care of so that they can begin to put their energies into some important, peripheral aspects of their lives.
I was thinking more about this last, important point of a previous post.
Way back when, you could simply go out into the world and live. You could create your own home, grow and hunt your own food. It was a big, wide open world.
Then we settled the whole country and chopped up the land into parcels and now everywhere belongs to someone. You can't go out and make your own way like before.
With this total land ownership, everyone was then automatically opted-in to a system where money matters most.
Our system requires (for the most part) that you do well in school when you're a young person. Education isn't valued in your home? Tough shit. You lose. You'll still work hard, likely harder than those who did well in school. You'll work harder and for less money until you die.
If we're all opted into a system in which a certain amount of money is required to live, then that should be the minimum everyone has or starts from.
I think it's the best case for UBI. Just get people to a financial level that they're able to care about wearing condoms and caring about their neighbors and instilling a value for education in one's children.
This has nothing to do with ethics or a lack thereof. Plenty of great people are poor and work hard. Even if they try to emphasize education to their children, the lack of evidence in their daily lives makes it a hard message to believe.