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UBGS: Universal Basic Goods and Services. You get an assigned flat and a food box once a week.

Unlike a UBI or even a limited currency like food stamps, You'd have to go to great effort to trade these things away for drugs or other addictions.

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How in the world would something like this realistically work? Start with the assigned flat. If this is truly a universal benefit then everybody gets one whether they use it or not. What if I have a house, what do I do with my flat provided by the government? I can't rent it, it has no value on account of everybody having one. Does it sit empty and unutilized? Who's building these and where? It's nearly impossible to build as it is due to NIMBYs, how are we going to build a studio per person to give away? Where will they be built, are they spread across the country or are they all in Alaska? What if I want to move, can I be reassigned to a new flat at my chosen destination or am I stuck with the flat I'm assigned at birth? What government agency is responsible for building and managing the assignments of all these flats and how much will it cost tax payers? I could go on and on and I haven't even touched on the food box yet (food allergies). This seems completely infeasible.

TBH, I see it as part of a grand scale project of economic and social organization that would make the Soviet Union look like a middle-school bake sale.

You don't have to actually allocate a house for it to be a universal benefit. All you need is a process for one to apply for a flat in the municipality in which they want to live, and the government provides one.

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