[abannin]

Paying people to not contribute to GDP will result in decreased GDP. Lower GDP means less income to be distributed.

UBI is not the first time someone has proposed that a central authority should determine the income of the general population. It doesn't take much research into Russia to recognize this as 'serfdom'.

[invaliduser]

Increasing the GDP is easy. First, pay me 50$ to dig a hole. Then I pay you 50$ to fill the very same hole. We created nothing but the GDP increased by 100$ (well, tax aside).

original source of this example: https://ploum.net/largent-doit-il-etre-notre-seul-objectif/ (in french, but interesting essay)

[vivekd]

Yeah, try that in scale for a few years and watch the economy collapse under runaway inflation.