In addition, poverty and recession and inflation can be locale specific & at large. The way you measure it is imperfect...
But I go back to the non-discretionary budget outcomes. UBI would be non-discretionary but has no automatic cull-back mechanism when the economy is doing well. The legislature would have to decide to cull it back...
So that's an important facet to why UBI is a risky idea that may take some scrambling and it may cause politicians to have to make timely....
JG, however, is in keeping with this counter-cylical stabilizers already in place but goes further: it gives people skills for other work, it provides something of value for the community, and there is no perverse incentives as are...
So, in theory, it is a much better idea.
But I hear a lot of the #yanggang on the welfare front. Theres a lot that is inhumane and undignified...
In short, the macroeconomics of UBI's implementation is potentially problematic, whereas JG is not. There are benefits to JG that go beyond cash transfers as well. But of course, it is very important to make sure....