If affluenza is real and silver spoons create unproductive people, shouldn't we be wary of spreading a version of it to a much larger chunk of the population?
I'd assume there is a pretty big difference between never have to work in your life rich and $1000 a month.
Yes. He may not be living at the expense of social security but he's consuming resources without producing anything back.
Yes of course, and sending them UBI checks isn’t a good look for the program either.
Or a retiree living off a state pension.
State pensions are the most obvious comparison to UBI with respect to being a fixed livable income paid to people for the rest of their life. The system is sustainable because people have to work before they start receiving their pension, not because pensioners [with intact cognitive facilities] are extremely creative and productive when freed from the need to work to pay the bills.