Author of OP's link here. Hi.

I've previously written about our present welfare system in this article here: https://medium.com/basic-income/breaking-down-without-a-spar...

Additionally, I've written about how much money we could be saving with UBI and why/how: https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-th...

And here's an article that includes just how much we are spending on a whole lot of things as a society, and how UBI would reduce these costs: https://medium.com/@2noame/how-we-can-transform-americas-bro...

This particular blog post of mine was purely an analogy made to make a single point.