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An UBI would have to be financed by taking the money directly from businesses since otherwise they would abuse it. If it's their money they will lower wages, but it would only really negatively affect people that already have a high income. Companys would have to to pay for peoples lives regardless of if they actually employ them which seems more appropriate for the 21. century where you can, in theory, have an online shop without any employees.
Directly organizing free food, housing, infrastructure etc. would maybe have less overhead but also be less flexible.
But if I learned something from software development it's that if you constantly have to patch weird edge cases of your system then it was probably a bad design to begin with…