Always in a class of your own @fitinfun! This is a great idea. And thank you for the shoutout.

My entry:
I'm new to the concept of Universal Basic Income but I am a fan. The idea that every person can have food, clothes, a roof and an education before they start working and earning is awesome. Breathtaking even. And for this NOT to be the result of some welfare state controlling people by controlling their access, is extremely attractive. Where it will all come from I do not understand, at all. I just know it would be awesome.

The assumption that people will then not want to work is based on an understanding of human nature with which I strongly disagree. And it is based on the assumption that the rich are rich because they work hard and the poor are poor because they are lazy. This is not true. It never has been and it never will be!
The canals will always be cleaned because it has to be done. Would it not be great if the person cleaning the canals is doing it to save for an overseas trip and not to put bread on the table. I think there will always be rich people and poor people. But there are too many people dying because of abject poverty. And there is too much money inactive in banks and under mattresses. Let's change the definition of rich and poor. I like the approach that says:

Live simply so that others may simply live

This may be too high a standard in a world filled with greed. But what if we can raise the definition of poverty to where the poorest of the poor have food, clothes, a roof and an education!

I hope somebody finds a way to make a universal basic income happen. Not so that I do not have to work or earn or create. I will always do that, no matter how much money I have. I hope it happens so that those who are dying of hunger, malnutrition, treatable diseases or exposure do not have to die!