You've gotten like 100 responses with impassioned pleas about blah so I don't expect to you will have the time/inclination to read this but as no one else has said it...
One of things I like about UBI is that if you can get cash for not working you are free to do something else. So at least a few % of the people who can now give up work will jack that in and either go back to school or start a business. In a few years, both those groups will be contributing much more (in taxes but also in general utility) than 20 people working in McDonalds ever will. That's part of the trade off here: if 95% of people do nothing, but 5% start businesses or other become 10 times more useful (which isn't hard if your working a skill-less minimum wage job), the program has half paid for itself already.
That doesn't happen with a job-guarantee program, people remain too busy\tired.
One of things I like about UBI is that if you can get cash for not working you are free to do something else. So at least a few % of the people who can now give up work will jack that in and either go back to school or start a business. In a few years, both those groups will be contributing much more (in taxes but also in general utility) than 20 people working in McDonalds ever will. That's part of the trade off here: if 95% of people do nothing, but 5% start businesses or other become 10 times more useful (which isn't hard if your working a skill-less minimum wage job), the program has half paid for itself already.
That doesn't happen with a job-guarantee program, people remain too busy\tired.