If income and output into the program are equal then the net cost of it is $0 and social benefit of remediating the automation that has displaced workers and provide them resources to sustain themselves or excell. All that said this was the basic idea behind social security too and the bastards rob it every chance they get. UBI only works if you have a non human thing you can justifiably tax, otherwise it's commie bullshit. As more workers get displaced by automation we can increase the UBI, combined with adequate propaganda and education the combination of UBI and automation will free people up to pursue new business. 60% of our workforce will be replaced by automation in a decade(this is why they are actively genociding us, they don't want the UBI tax to be on parity with a worker's salary) What happened to the equine population after the success of the automobile? I could gush about UBI for a long time, suffice it to say it's completely fucked until we get rid of kikes and other parasites.