A UBI is not a socialist policy. It makes no change to the power structure. That’s why it’s often supported by right wing as well as supposedly left wing thinkers. With UBI power remains in the hands of the bourgeoisie, that is to say the class of ownership. The income will go straight into various rentier schemes, there will be no change to material or economic deprivation, and the people will have neither a better living standard nor more power than they had before it’s introduction. In other words, it’s a con, presented in a way that appeals to leftists who have only a superficial understanding of how power, economics and ideology really functions.