The kibbutz concept was to set up egalitarian agricultural communes that provided a decent but not luxurious quality of life. This was achieved through hard work. This is not Universal Basic Income at all. It's closer to Amish life, although most kibbutz were secular.

One writeup says that TV killed this. Kibbutzim could now see that others elsewhere were doing much better.

UBI went out the door in 2020. I used to support UBI, but after seeing what people did with the federal checks, I don't anymore. The level of fraud was also staggering.

Crypto scams peaking then is not an accident. People went nuts with the "free money"