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£1000 a month for a single person certainly sounds like poverty, but £2000 a month for a couple sounds more manageable. If they each find a side gig that pays just another £100 a week, they're suddenly into the top half of households [0] - even better than that outside London.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...




That's in line with the OP's point that it's not really affordable compared with the current system, for all that system's flaws

The fact that a UBI which set at a rate low enough to make some existing benefit dependents would also be a generous subsidy to homeowning couples who might be able to use it to to retire a decade or two early isn't one of its strong points




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