"Basic income, basic housing, basic food, basic education, basic healthcare?"

I am open minded about UBI, etc.

However, it has occurred to me recently that we already have a decent experimental result with regard to:

"Basic income, basic housing, basic food, basic education, basic healthcare"

Poor white people in the rural United States have all of those things. Even the poorest of them have basic food, housing and education that we might consider "first world".

I notice that they aren't following their passions and climbing up to the peak of mazlows hierarchy.

Instead, the lack of self-determination and "purpose" causes a despair that drives them to substance abuse.

(apologies for the cascading UBI debate, below...)