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People join the military for reasons other than money. Become doctors and emergency services etc all for reasons that are not related to money. People will do the things they do, but having some money means that people can take risks and feel safe in society. It removes the hard floor.

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"people can [...] feel safe in society": This is the most important thing from my point of view. If people feel safe, you reduce stress, tension in the society and you increase the quality of life of everybody in the same society. It should benefit everybody.

This is really why I want this to happen on a large enough scale to see if it really works or not.

> It removes the hard floor.

In the US, we could already make great strides with removing the hard floor by simply implementing universal, primary health care coverage, free/low-cost higher education and wages that keep up with inflation. I feel that BI in some form is inevitable and the next logical step of civilized society, however, given the incredible resistance to providing universal health care, I do not see BI happening in my lifetime.

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