canada to experiment with universal basic income

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I suppose this can only happen when enough hearts soften, when the power of love exceeds the love of power, when enough middle and upper-class people can cease scapegoating the working class long enough to see pragmatic reason.

in the long run, I believe UBI will pay for itself in increased overall productivity/creativity with its concomitant increased tax revenues.

I know even Milton Friedman also advocated the Swiss idea of a guaranteed wage. There is support for it on both sides of the spectrum. I think the problem is that here in America and the Western World, especially the former, is we are too married to the Puritan Work Ethic. Yeah, it does have its virtue but as time marches on, it does have its negative side too. It was more appropriate in a world of a pioneer culture and in medieval times of the serfdom era. We are not sod-breakers, for the most part, anymore and I'm sure that if many people did not have to worry where their next meal is coming from and so forth with the effort just to survive, I believe most of us, be it NT or Aspie, would take the time freed from a drudge job to better ourselves by going to school or working at a hobby to learn something and turn it into a career. I'm a ham radio operator, I'd love to work in radio-electronics and software defined radio, perhaps a guaranteed income would give me enough to get started and to learn while me not worrying how to make ends meet so I can find my niche and so on. My cousin, I think he has a touch of Asperger's too, there are times he tells me "his family doesn't understand him" so I know the feeling, I'm the only one he is open with, we both have had strange paranormal experiences too, most laugh at us except us. Getting back to the subject, I think such an idea would give me time to experiment with SD Radio, take programming classes and so on while giving me enough to live on and take care of my two cats.

I suppose this can only happen when enough hearts soften, when the power of love exceeds the love of power, when enough middle and upper-class people can cease scapegoating the working class long enough to see pragmatic reason.

I find that it is traditional conservatives who have a big fear of segment of "free-loaders" being a burden on everyone else. It isn't as much of a concern for pragmatic libertarians who are more interested in parsimonious solutions than the Randian swim-or-sink mentality of hard-line right-wingers.

So the OP expects to get paid for doing nothing? The article doesn't take into account how hospitalizations will be paid and what about housing? $800-1,000 a month will hardly cover food and such. And I'm sure these people wanting to get paid for sitting on their asses will want a vehicle and a cell phone to boot. How is all that going to be paid for?