Would you be more likely to accept UBI...funded from some other resource? It does not have to come only from taxes and theft. I don't know you...but the argument that everyone needs to take care of themselves and their own needs without help...appears to be the voice of someone who has never personally struggled to fulfill their own basic energy needs in order to sustain life. I believe that it takes this struggle to understand how important something like UBI is...when various life circumstances simply stack up against you...and no matter how much you want to take 'responsibility' there is often no way around the obstacles. Worrying about how to gather food...shelter and clothing in a broken economy...well I just think that we have come too far since the dark ages to allow this to continue any longer! It just isn't as productive as using that energy and focus to strive for the higher goals of humanity instead. Because that 'individual being' mindset has never served us well...and never will.